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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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.
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