From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>
Reply-To: tholtz@umd.edu
To: david.marjanovic@gmx.at, DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>, jharris@dixie.edu
Subject: RE: New Bird Fossils
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:01:33 -0500
> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> David Marjanovic
>
> > I love it -- "anti-birds!" Must be made of anti-matter, and when they
> > come
> > into contact with regular birds...
>
John Merck suggests the following:
The flash of gamma rays produced by the collision between flocks of birds
and anti-birds 65.5 million years ago resulted in the K/T
extinction. The fundamental asymmetry in the number of birds vs. anti-birds
resulted in the presence of Neornithes but not
Enantiornithes in the Cenozoic.
> > briefing, "big bird cottage" about 1.3 billion years ago to live in
it,
> > geologically known as the Mesozoic Era early Cretaceous who period.
"Great
> > Cottage Bird" early birds are the anti-bird, the anti-bird early bird
is
> > the
> > most prosperous one sticks of sub-opposite sex is also very clear that
my
> > Western Liaoning birds found in the Mesozoic Era of most types can be
> > classified under the categories, including China birds, birds China,
the
> > Baltic Chek birds, before anti-bird, the bird and the original
markings
> > long
> > wing birds, and so on.
>
> Hm. The before-anti-bird must be *Eoenantiornis*. The China bird ought
to be
> *Shenzhouraptor*.
_Sinornis_?
> The one with the long wings is surely *Longipteryx*. But
> the rest... ~:-|
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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Department of Geology Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland College Park Scholars
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