Re: Mesozoic Neornitheans

["Mickey Mortimer" <mickey_mortimer@email.msn.com>]

I wrote-

>> I can't help you out on most of these but Eurolimnorins corneti is a
member
>> of the Neognathae according to Kurochkin (1995).
>>
>> Kurochkin, 1995. Synopsis of Mesozoic birds and the early evolution of
the
>> class Aves. Archaeopteryx 13 47-66


Mike Keesey wrote-

>An Early Cretaceous neognathan? That is interesting.

Supposedly, but the species' holotype is only a distal humerus, so I
wouldn't put too much weight in the taxonomic placement.  Then again, I'm
not a bird expert.  Perhaps distal humeri of neognathans are distinctive or
something.

Mickey Mortimer