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Confuciusornis is a genus of crow-sized, primitive, birds from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Jianshangou Beds) of China, dating to 124.6 million years ago. Like modern birds, Confuciusorn...
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Part I presents the story of the Confuciusornis sanctus, a valuable and scientifically significant fossil, as an example of the immense challenge faced by those who set out to protect fossils. Part II places this story ... I.  The Story of the Confuciusornis Sanctus, or, How an Important Fossil Is Lost to China...
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See id.; 18 See id.; 19 This was two years before the Confuciusornis sanctus was identified and published. A Confuciusornis also appeared in New York in 1993 in the hands of a ... See id.; 83 Henry Galiano, owner of Maxilla and Mandible, a fossil shop in New York City that has bought and sold Confuciusornis specimens,
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Confuciusornis sanctus provides the earliest evidence for a beaked, edentulous bird. The associated wing skeleton retains the primitive pattern found in Archaeopteryx, including a manus with unfused carpal elements and long digits.
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Bird Fossils Photos of Fossils; Virtual Geology Museum Hall of Fossils ... replica of Confuciusornis sanctus fossil-1 entire body; Beipiao, Liaoning, China; Cretaceous, 124 million years old ... Geology Home Page...
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; Confuciusornis sanctus, fossil bird from China ; Confuciusornis sanctus ("the sacred bird of Confucius") is the earliest known beaked bird. Discovere... VIEW resin ; 12x8.5 inches | Item 1376 ; ... Confuciusornis sanctus, fossil bird from China...
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The Confuciusornis Sanctus, the fossil of a species of bird which appeared much earlier than the archaeopteryx, previously thought to be the world's first bird, has caused a major rethinking of the origin of birds.
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Chinese and American paleontologists describe the fossils and discuss their implications in a report published in the journal Nature. Their name for the new fossil species is Confuciusornis sanctus, for holy Confucius bird.
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