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

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

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

*Palintropus* seems to be one. Unfortunately it's only known from a few
coracoid and scapular fragments.
Sylvia Hope: The Mesozoic Radiation of Neornithes, 339 -- 388 = chapter 15
of Luis M. Chiappe & Lawrence M. Witmer (eds): Mesozoic Birds. Above the
Heads of Dinosaurs, University of California 2002

Besides, Galliformes and Anseriformes are sistergroups, so, from the
presence of the latter, we'd expect the former anyway.

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

This one... there are only 2 possibilities: either it's a loriid, means, it
belongs to a _part_ of the crown group of Psittaciformes, or it's not a
psittaciform. The former seems quite unlikely, given e. g. the Eocene
psittaciform fossil record. There are many Cretaceous bird clades for which
we don't know dentaries, or which we don't know from the LK so far...