Oxytropidoceras Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 One of the world’s oldest flying seabird fossils discovered Canterbury Museum, Scoop, Sci-Tech, New Zealand, January 22, 2014 (One of the world’s oldest flying seabird fossils discovered in North Canterbury) http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1401/S00046/one-of-the-worlds-oldest-flying-seabird-fossils-discovered.htm Fossil discovery sheds light on unknown bird by Sarah-Jane O'Connor, Stuff.co.nz, January 22, 2014 http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/9637869/Fossil-discovery-sheds-light-on-unknown-bird The paper is: Mayr, G., and R. P. Scofield, 2014, First diagnosable non-sphenisciform bird from the early Paleocene of New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Received: 19 Aug 2013, Accepted: 23 Oct 2013Published online: 21 Jan 2014 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03036758.2013.863788 Yours, Paul H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilselachian Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Nice to see comment that the fossil was found by an amateur fossil collector! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave pom Allen Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 another nice aves find by a new zealand amateur paul schofield has a few of my plio-mioc birds that he is looking into, i hope to have the same success, fingers crossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Mud Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Very interesting. Thanks for posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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