Re: Brooding feathers, Chinese dinobirds

[tlford@ix.netcom.com]

Jeff Hecht wrote:
>
> 
> Another thing that much intrigues me is how many species/genera the Chinese
> deposits sample? We seem to have a nice sampling of critters ranging from
> scaly dinosaurs through the 'downy' Sinosauropteryx, the flightless but
> feathered Protarchaeopteryx and Caudipteryx, to the feathered and very
> abundant flighted bird Confuciusornis. What else are we missing? Could all
> those Confuciusornis be the equivalent of the assorted sparrows, swallows,
> woodpeckers and robins flying around a modern lake -- but not yet
> differentiated because no one has studied enough of them as carefully as
> Ji, Currie, and Norell did Protarchaeopteryx and Caudipteryx (which they
> originally thought was just another Protarchaeopteryx).
> 
> -- Jeff Hecht

In a word yes. I know there's an article that puts them in the right
order, but I can't think of it right now, but here's what I have.


CHINA   

LIAOING PROVINCE

JIUFOTANG FORMATION

LATE JURASSIC.

                                   CLASS: AVES LINNAEUS 1758

CLASS: AVES LINNAEUS 1758

Confuciusornis sanctus 


CHINA

LIAONING PROVINCE

JUIFOTANG FORMATION

VALANGINIAN

EARLY CRETACEOUS

                   CLASS: AVES LINNAEUS 1758

                SUBCLASS: ENANTIORNITHES WALKER 1981

ORDER: EUORNITHIFORMES

Family: Concornithidae 

Sinornis santensis


CHINA

LIAONING PROVINCE

CHAOYANG COUNTY

BOLUOCHI

JIUFOTANG FORMATION

EARLY CRETACEOUS

                   CLASS: AVES LINNAEUS 1758

                SUBCLASS: ENANTIORNITHES WALKER 1981

ORDER: EUORNITHIFORMES

Family: Concornithidae 

Boluochia zhengi



CHINA

CHAOYANG COUNTY

LIAONING PROVINCE

JUIFOTANG FORMATION

EARLY CRETACEOUS

                   CLASS: AVES LINNAEUS 1758

                SUBCLASS: ENANTIORNITHES WALKER 1981

Family: Enantiornithidae NESSOV & BORKIN, 1983

Genus Nova

ORDER: EUORNITHIFORMES

Family: Concornithidae 

Cathayornis yandica

Aves incertae sedis.

Chaoyangia beishanensis


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