Yandican China-Bird
Cathayornis yandica
(Zhou, Jin & Zhang, 1995)
Cathayornis yandica is a small,
insectivorous, perching bird of early Cretaceous Asia. It is a close
reletive of Sinornis
and may actually belong to that genus.
Other sites containing pertinent information:
- T. Mike Keesey's Cathayornis
page.
- Gregory Paul's (!) Cathayornis
skeletal reconstruction.
- Sam Barnett's Cathayornis
- The Rise of Birds by Sankar Chatterjee. Published in 1997
by Johns Hopkins University Press.
- The Origin and Evolution of Birds (second edition), by Alan
Feduccia, published in 1999 by Yale University Press
© Daniel Bensen 2000
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