Acta Scientrium Ngensis
2nd Annserisary Memorial of the discovery
of Confuciusornis from NSC and
Sinosauropteryx in Hongkong
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NG's Synopsis of Dinosaurus / Dinosauria Ngiana
NG's Synopsis of Birds /Aves Ngiana
Fool of Chinese Paleontologist
It's the memorial day of 2nd Anniversary of NSC induction the Confuciusornis, there is the exhibition of feather dinosaurs and prehistoric birds in Hongkong Science Museum at the same time, this program can so to speak the great show! But there is no more people knows the inside story about these fossils.
There are some stranger foosils of fish, insects and plants fossil were found from the Sihetun Village, Shangyuan Town, Beipiao City, Liaoning Province in 80's, When the farmers found them by the field, Local fossil hunters collected them.
Yang Yu Shan, a local farmer, found the uncompleted bird fossil in 1993. and then this fossil was collected by the foosil collector, Zhenghe, it's the bird-liked creature fossil with manus with the skull, after reseraching by the paleontogist, Hou Lin Hai, he named the bird as (Confuciusornis sanctus), means the Holly Confucius' bird. It's belongs to subclass Sauriurae, it's other member of this subclass with Archeaopteryx.
After the discovery of Confuciusornis, Liaoning became to the " Scrimmage Area of Paleontology" Some guys said so much words from some feathered dinosaurs linked with the foreign plaeontogists, They said that they have discovered the evolutionary linkage line bewteen the dinosaurs and birds. These advensome guys try to make explaination by the limit materials they take! What a foolish guys!
NGB-81NGB-81
Type specimen of NSC
Confuciusornis caused the "Wing (Pteryx)" genius
Hou and Zhou promulaged their article, A Jurassic Beaked Bird from China, in Chinese Science Bulletin in 1995, Confuciusornis was introduced to the world, it's the poco-advanced bird than Archaeopteryx, belongs to the same subclass.
After that, A local museum from
China watched the Liaoning fossils and controlled the area for seraching
fossil, some species of "strange" bird-like dinosaurs were found, Their
discoveries are treated as birds, so that they suggested the scientific name refer the
bird, ,Protarchaeopteryx,
Sinosauropteryx, and Caudipteryx, As finally, none of them.
can be considered as bird, instead of dinosaurs were belongs to the
existed families. Although they absorbed the unwanted result, they try to put their
descovery in the important position of the linkage line between birds and
dinosaurs.
Exhibitions with the uncertain topic are opened around the world!
NGB-81NGB-81z
Paratype specimen
Origin of Bird and Dinosaurs
There is no answer for the question of the origin of birds, It may be an unanswered question. It's no doubt that it is the closed related with dinosaurs than any other existed reptiles. We can know that the quite difference structure between typical birds and the ratite birds, they are belongs to the Aves class, Although the theory of birds comes from the dinosaur is not correct at all, it's only the phenomenon of congenetic evolution.
Bird-liked dinosaurs or Dinosaur-liked bird
Chinese dinosaur-like bird (Sinosauropteryx prima), the name of grace for the feathered dinosaur, belongs to the dinosaurian order of Saurischia, and the family of compsognathidae. it the tiny fresh-eaten dinosaurs, found in the Liaoning Province, some structure feature are similar to those of bird. The earlier species from the same family, Compsognathus, was found in Germany in 19th Century.
It's so good for us a chance to visit the fossil of Sinosauropteryx, it's paratype specimen, Although the sponsor says so called the ancestor of birds, it clearly that it's the typical dinosaur with feather.
Surely, Sinosauropteryx is the one most impotant discovery of dinosaurs in the world.
Gallery
Class: Aves
Order:Archaeopterygiformes, Family: Archaeopterygidae
Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx
lithographica Meyer, 1861
NGB- 78 ref. (Berlin specimen, replica) [Entire-1] [Entire-2] [Skull] [Winged-claw and feather]
Order:Confuciusornithiformes, Family: Confuciusornithidae
Holly confucis' bird
Confuciusornis sanctus Hou et al.,1996.
NGB-81(NSC type specimen)
[Entire] [Footed claw (left-upside)and
microstructure of winged feather(x20)]
NGB-81z [Entire] [Skull]
Specimen from NGMC [Entire] [Winged
bird]
Great wall bird Changchenornis
hengdaoziensis
Specimen from NGMC [Entire]
Order:Liaoningorithiformes, Family: Liaoxiornithidae
Liaoxiornis Liaoxiornis
delicatus
Specimen from NGMC [Entire]
Dinosaur
Order:Saurischia, Family: Compsognathidae
Sinosauropteryx Sinosauropteryx
prima
Specimen from NGMC [Entire] [Skull] [Skull and necked vertebra] [Carcass]
Order: Ornithischia Family: Oviraptoridae
Caudipteryx Caudipteryx
zoui
Specimen from NGMC [Skull and carcass] [Tailed-feather]
[Winged-claw and feather]
