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Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Dec. 2005 (advance publication)
Cretaceous fossil birds from Hornby Island (British Columbia)

Kurt Morrison, Gareth J. Dyke, and Luis M. Chiappe
Can. J. Earth Sci./Rev. can. sci. Terre 42(12): 2097-2101 (2005)
Abstract: We present the first records of Mesozoic fossil birds to be
described from British Columbia. New fossil avians from the Campanian
Northumberland Formation on Hornby Island (Strait of Georgia) add to the
known distributions of two groups of fossil birds during the latter stage
of the Mesozoic. New specimens referred to the clades Ornithurae and
Enantiornithes demonstrate the presence of a diverse marine avifauna in
Canadian Pacific marine sediments prior to the CretaceousTertiary (KT)
boundary. These new fossil bird remains from coastal rocks on the west
coast of British Columbia lend further support to suggestions that
ocean-going birds were important constituents of marine ecosystems in the
terminal stages of the Mesozoic.




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