Early Cretaceous Feathers from Victoria
作者:
TalentJohn A.,
DuncanPeter M.,
HandryPeter L.,
期刊:
Emu - Austral Ornithology
(Taylor Available online 1966)
卷期:
Volume 66,
issue 2
页码: 81-86
ISSN:0158-4197
年代: 1966
DOI:10.1080/01584197.1966.11797177
出版商: Taylor&Francis
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
SummaryUnusually well preserved fossil feathers from Lower Cretaceous (Vulanginian-Aptian) claystones at Koonwarra, Victoria, are the oldest (c. 110–125 million years) bird remains yet found in the southern hemisphere. They are among the oldest bird remains known in the world, being antedated only by the toothedArchaeopteryxfrom the late Jurassic of Bavaria, and being more or less the same age asGullornisfrom the Lower Cretaceous of France. The Victorian fossil feathers are evidence for essentially worldwide distribution of birds soon after the beginning of the Cretaceous, if not before. The feathers could conceivably have come from toothed birds.
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