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Specimen #: B.77.03.07
Collection: Aves > Bird, Ichthyornis
Status: loan
Description
Dorsal Vertebra
Measurements
Specimen is presently on loan to the University of Kansas. A measurement of 6.0 mm is provided by Nicholls (1989) on page 185 for this specimen.
Publications
MARTIN, L.D. and J.D. Stewart. 1982. An ichthyornithiform bird from the Campanian of Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 19 pp. 324-327. NICHOLLS, E.L. 1989. Marine Vertebrates of the Pembina Member of the Pierre Shale (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous) of Manitoba and their Significance to the Biogeography of the Western Interior Seaway. University of Calgary, pp. 179-180, 185.
Details
| Common Name: | Bird, Ichthyornis |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Ichthyornithiformes |
| Family: | Ichthyornithidae |
| Genus: | Ichthyornis |
| Species: | unknown |
| Geo Period: | Assume Cretaceous |
| Epoch: | Assume Campanian |
| Formation: | Assume Pierre Shale |
| Member: | Assume Pembina |
| Current Location: | Manitoba Escarpment |
| Credit: | Dr. Elizabeth Nicholls, Henry Isaak, Don Bell |
Current Condition
unknown