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

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