Oxytropidoceras Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Amateur collectors in Japan discover country's first and oldest fossil diving bird, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, August 8, 2017 http://www.perotmuseum.org/about-the-perot/newsroom/news-releases/2017/08/chupkaornis-keraorum.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170808145449.htm "Two brothers from a small town in Hokkaido, Japan, made the discovery of their lives -- the first and oldest fossil bird ever identified in their country. Identified as a new species, it has been named Chupkaornis keraorum." The paper is: Tanaka, T., Y. Kobayashi, K. Kurihara, A. R. Fiorillo, and M. Kano. 2017. The oldest Asian hesperornithiform from the Upper Cretaceous of Japan, and the phylogenetic reassessment of Hesperornithiformes. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2017; 1 DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1341960 http://www.perotmuseum.org/media/files/Newsroom/2017/8.8.2017_Tanaka_et_al_2017_Chupkaornis.pdf Yours, Paul H. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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