A Belgian Identified Oldest Feathered Dinosaur in Liaoning

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Amina Khan, Scientists Find Oldest Feathered Dinosaur Yet: Sorry, Archaeopteryx. Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2013
http://www.latimes.com/news/scie ... rornis-xui-20130529,0,7343852.story
("The new find, christened Aurornis xui, was discovered in northeastern China in the Liaoning Province. The 20-inch, chicken-sized fossil is estimated to be about 160 million years old, about 10 million years older than Archaeopteryx")

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(i) Chris Woolston, New Contender for First Bird; Feathered creature shakes up avian family tree. Nature, _: _ (published online May 29, 2013)
http://www.nature.com/news/new-contender-for-first-bird-1.13088
(half-metre tall; was unearthed by a farmer in China's Liaoning Province and had been unidentified until palaeontologist Pascal Godefroit found it last year in the museum at the Fossil and Geology Park 中德化石地质公园 [中德 being the name of a company that owns the park] in Yizhou 辽宁省锦州市义县 义州镇 ; measures about half a metre from the tip of its beak to the end of its tail; had small, sharp teeth)
(ii) Godefroit P et al, A Jurassic Avialan dinosaur from China resolves the early phylogenetic history of birds. Nature, _: _ (published online May 29, 2013).
http://www.nature.com/nature/jou ... ll/nature12168.html

Tiaojishan Formation  髫髻山组
(b) The new find is named Aurornis xui, where Xui is derived from
"中国の古生物学者徐星の姓xu," according to a news report in Japan (the addition of "i" is to Latinize "Xu").