Kuszholia
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| Kuszholia Fossil range: Late Cretaceous |
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| Kuszholia mengi Nessov, 1992 |
Kuszholia (meaning "Milky Way bird" after the Kazakh term for the Milky Way, kus zholi) is the name given to a genus from the Late Cretaceous. It was possibly a coelurosaur close to the ancestry of birds, although most scientists consider it an avian and a member of the Enantiornithes. Its fossils were found in the Bissekty Formation in the Kyzyl Kum desert of Uzbekistan.
The genus contains a single species, K. mengi; a separate family has been erected for it (Kuszholiidae), but this is not usually accepted and most researchers consider its affimities indeterminable beyond the scope presented above at present.
[edit] References
- Nessov, Lev Aleksandrovich (1992): [Record of the Localities of Mesozoic and Paleogene with Avian Remains in the USSR, and the description of New Findings]. Russian Journal of Ornithology 1: 7-50 [Article in Russian]
[edit] External links
- George Olshevsky on Kuszholia, from the Dinosaur Mailing List
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