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Dinosaur-bird fossil discovery (1 Viewer)

Fred Ruhe

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Netherlands
New material of Nanantius eos Molnar, 1986 has been found in Queensland, Autralia.

http://www.birdforum.net/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=720

Nanatius eos Molnar, 1986 was known from a left tibiotarsus from the Early Cretaceous of Queensland.

Another species of the genus Nanantius Molnar, 1986 is Nanantius valifanovi Kurochkin, 1996 from Late Cretaceous of the Gobi Dessert, Mongolia.

Literature:

Ralphe E. Molnar, 1986: An Enantiornithine Bird from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia: Nature 322: 736-738

Evgeny Nikolayevic Kurochkin, 1996: A New Enantiornithid of the Mongolian Late Cretaceous, and a General Appraisal of the Infraclass Enantiornithes: Palaeontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moskou, Special Issue 1996: 1-50

Enjoy,

Fred

Some newly found bones
 

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