Re: "Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit Earth..."

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> writes:

> there are indeed several 
> clades
> of modern birds known from Cretaceous fossils: duck relatives
> (Anseriformes), chicken relatives (Galliformes), loons (Gaviidae), 
> arguably
> cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae), and what seem to be shorebirds
> (Charadriiformes).


I was unaware that Galliformes were present in the Cretaceous. 
Reference?

And don't forget parrots (Stidham, T. A. 1998. A lower jaw from a
Cretaceous parrot. Nature 396:29-30).

<pb>
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