Cretaceous fossil birds from Hornby Island (British Columbia)
Morrison, K., Dyke, Gareth J. and Chiappe, L.M. (2005) Cretaceous fossil birds from Hornby Island (British Columbia). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42, (12), 2097-2101.
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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 Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) 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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0008-4077 (print) 1480-3313 (electronic) |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QE Geology Q Science > QH Natural history |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences > Ocean and Earth Science > Ocean Biochemistry & Ecosystems |
| Item ID: | 205237 |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Dec 2011 14:47 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jan 2012 14:11 |
| Contributors: | Morrison, K. (Author) Dyke, Gareth J. (Author) Chiappe, L.M. (Author) |
| Date: | 1 December 2005 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/205237 |
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