Re: Confuciusornis sanctus

[fredericus ruhe <fredruhe@xs4all.nl>]

Hou, 1997 described 2 additional species:
Confuciusornis chuonzhous Hou, 1997. and Confuciusornis suniae Hou, 1997.,
also described in Confuciusornithidae is Changchengornis hengdaoziensis Q.
Ji, Chiappe & S. Ji, 1999.

The reference for the Hou-species is:

Lianhai Hou, 1997
Mesozoic Birds of China
Natou, Taiwan: Taiwan Feng Huang Gu Bird Garden

but it's out of print and almost inpossible to find,

for Changchengornis:

Ji Qiang, Luis M. Chiappe & Ji Shu'an, 1999
A New Late Mesozoic Confuciusornithid Bird from China 
Journal of vertebrate paleontology 19: 1-7

If you get url's for good pages, please let me know

Fred Ruhe


At 19:29 25-01-2000 -0800, you wrote:
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>I have some questions I would like to ask about Confuciusornus sanctus, the
>beaked bird from Liaoning.
>1) I've read that, because the paleontologists in Liaoning have discovered many
>C. sanctus fossils together, they assumed that the birds live in colonies.  Is
>there any behavioral information past that?  That is, do we know of male:female
>ratios or have any fossils of the actual nest structures?  Probably not, but I
>wish to ask anyway.
>2)From the shape of the bird's beak, I assume it's a seed-eater.  Am I correct?
>3)C. sanctus has very small feet, but large talons on its hands.  Does this
>indicate that it used its hands to perch or, like terns (which also have small
>feet) it rarely perched at all?
>4) I know that there are many species of Confuciusornis, but only know anything
>about C. sanctus and C. dui.  What of the others?
>5) It would be nice if anyone could give me the URLs of some good webpages that
>focus on this genus, as well, perhaps, as other Liaoning avians.
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>Thanks
>Dan
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