Cretaceous fossil birds from Hornby Island (British Columbia)
Cretaceous fossil birds from Hornby Island (British Columbia)
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.
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Morrison, K.
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Dyke, Gareth J.
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Chiappe, L.M.
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1 December 2005
Morrison, K.
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Dyke, Gareth J.
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Chiappe, L.M.
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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), .
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 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.
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Published date: 1 December 2005
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Ocean Biochemistry & Ecosystems
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Local EPrints ID: 205237
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/205237
ISSN: 0008-4077
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Gareth J. Dyke
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L.M. Chiappe
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