Re:Some questions

[Antoni Lacasa-Ruiz <fossils@redestb.es>]

Felix Landry wrote:

>This article speak of a lower cretaceous bird from Spain who loks like
>modern birds. Wellnhofer say that this bird is as yet unnamed. But the
>article is from 1991! Is these two animals the same?

No. The actual bird from "Science"(last number) is a new fossil from
outcrop of Montsec of lithographic limestone (Lleida province, Spain) It
is a second fossil bird from Montsec. It is a baby bird and innominated
at moment. The first was Noguerornis gonzalezi 1988, very fragmented.
(all enantiornihes).From this outcrop there are also isolated very
fossil feathers with the name-parataxon Ilerdopteryx viai. Early
cretaceus. 
Las Hoyas (Cuenca province, Spain) fossil birds are: Iberomesornis
romerali, Concornis lacustris and Eoalulavis hoyasi.Early cretaceous.

I think that the bird named for Wellnhofer is Concornis lacustris.

Kind regards.
Antoni Lacasa-Ruiz.
fossils@redestb.es
Foundation Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs. Lleida-Spain.