In his book In Search of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Jerome A. Jackson relates that a fossil species was described as Campephilus dalquesti by Pierce Brodkorb, an American ornithologist and paleontologist. This fossil species was discovered in Scurry County in central Texas, and dated to the late Pliocene epoch.
I wonder what C. dalquesti looked like. Maybe a bit like this dino-bird!? At least the colors look right. The dino-bird portrayed below is Anchiornis huxleyi - you can find more info here.
Check out the amazing video at this link:
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
A Fossil Campephilus Species
Posted by Bill Benish at 1:34 AM
Labels: Campephilus dalquesti, species, taxonomy
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3 comments:
Very very excellent video. Thank you very much.
My pleasure! I was happy to find it.
Stirling work you are doing on this blog. Great photographs. Well done.
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