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Fwd: Polly Want a Dinosaur?



 
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Mary Kirkaldy, our reporter extraordinaire and all-around nice person,
wrote:

<<"An inch-long jaw fragment found in Wyoming suggests that parrots 
were keeping the dinosaurs company in the years before a cosmic
collision killed off nearly three-quarters of life on Earth, a
researcher says.">>
 
and the intrepid *Dinogorgeus olshevskyi* replied:

<Sounds like a caenagnathid to me...>

  Compare to *Chirostenotes sp.* in Currie, Godfrey, and Nessov, 1993.
A really robust caenagnathid jaw, about as long as *Chirostenotes
pergracilis* (Sternberg, 1940) NMC 8667, the type for *Caenagnathus
collinsi*, but far deeper; also from the Hell Creek Formation,
Montana? [I don't have my ref with me right now, but it is USA].

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Jaime A. Headden

Qilong, the website, at:
http://members.tripod.com/~Qilong/qilong.html
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