Eating New Papers

["Jerry D. Harris" <jharris@dixie.edu>]

Well, one of 'em's about eating, anyway...


First, two new ones available free on-line (at 
http://geology.utah.gov/surveynotes/snt39-3.pdf):


Milner, A.R.C., and Kirkland, J.I. 2007. The case for fishing dinosaurs at 
the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm. Utah Geological 
Survey Notes 39(3):1-3.


Kirkland, J.I., and DeBlieux, D.D. 2007. New horned dinosaurs from the 
Wahweap Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern 
Utah. Utah Geological Survey Notes 39(3):4-5.


Then, two new ones from Gerald Mayr, the first of which is on-line only at 
present:


Mayr, G. 2007. The renaissance of avian paleontology and its bearing on the 
higher-level phylogeny of birds. Journal of Ornithology. doi: 
10.1007/s10336-007-0159-8.

ABSTRACT: Recent phylogenetic analyses provide strong evidence for some 
previously undetected clades of morphologically very divergent avian groups. 
Also, within the past decades, palaeornithology has experienced a 
renaissance and the Paleogene fossil record of birds is approaching that of 
mammals in the number of recorded higher-level taxa. However, there is still 
little mutual exchange between students of these different data, as 
molecular systematists are often unfamiliar with the fossil record of birds, 
whereas palaeornithologists only recently started to interpret their fossils 
in the light of modern phylogenetic analyses. Here, this deficiency is 
remedied in a brief overview of some fossil "missing links" between extant 
higher avian groups, which combine derived characters of a certain taxon and 
plesiomorphic characters of its sister group.


Mayr, G. 2007. New specimens of Eocene stem-group psittaciform birds may 
shed light on the affinities of the first named fossil bird, Halcyornis 
toliapicus KOENIG, 1825. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie 
Abhandlungen 244(2): 207-213.

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