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I.—On the Odontornithes, or Birds with Teeth1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

O. C. Marsh
Affiliation:
Of Yale College, Newhaven, Ct.U.S.A.

Extract

Remains of birds are among the rarest of fossils, and few have been described save from the more recent formations. With the exception of Archœopteryx from the Jurassic, and a single species from the Cretaceous, no birds are known in the old world below the Tertiary. In this country, numerous remains of birds have been found in the Cretaceous, but there is no satisfactory evidence of their existence in any older formation, the three-toed footprints of the Triassic being probably all made by Dinosaurian reptiles.

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Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1876

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References

page 49 note 2 For some account of previously known Fossil Birds, see an Article on “Birds with Teeth,” by Woodward, H., in the “Popular Science Review,” No. 57, October, 1875, p. 337, pl. cxxv.Google Scholar

page 49 note 3 Silliman's American Journal, vol. iv. p. 344Google Scholar, and vol. v. p. 74.

page 50 note 1 Silliman's American Journal, vol. v. p. 74, 01. 1873.Google Scholar

page 50 note 2 Silliman's American Journal, vol. iii. p. 360, 05, 1872.Google Scholar