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Re: Cretaceous Birds



Joe:  I suggest you contact Larry Martin at U. Kansas Museum. Cheers.



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> The June issue of Scientific American has the article, "Flying in the Face 
> of Tradition" - "Avian evolution may have been anything but gradual".
> 
> Christina Stock writes about a reexamination of bird/dinosaur relations and 
> mentions Alan Chiappe's forthcoming book on the subject.  Excellent!
> 
> Similarly, yet somewhat contradictory, Luis Chappe writes "A Diversity of 
> Early Birds" in the latest Natural History.
> 
> A colleague and I recently returned from the Campanian age Judith River 
> Formation with a small, partial, proximal end of an avian(?) humerus.  Can 
> anyone help us get this rare fossil to the attention of either of the two 
> aforementioned researchers or someone else involved in avian evolutionary 
> studies?
> 
> Please reply off-line if you wish.
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> David Schwimmer
Dep't of Chemistry & Geology
Columbus College, Columbus GA 31907-5645
Schwimmer_David@Mercury.csg.Peachnet.edu 

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