辽西地区早期鸟化石的发现及其研究进展顾玉才（辽宁省文物考古研究所）辽西地区中生代地层发育，其中蕴藏着丰富的古生物化石。这一地区古生物化石发现与研究的历史可以追溯到上世纪末，１８８０年Ｓａｕｖａｇｅ报道了采自凌源大新房子一带的鱼化石。一百多年来，国内外学者 Discovery and Research Progress of Early Bird Fossils in Western Liaoning Province GU Yu-cai (Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology, Liaoning Province) The Mesozoic strata in western Liaoning developed with rich paleontological fossils. The history of paleontology fossils discovery and research in this area dates back to the end of the last century. In 1880, Sauvage reported on fish fossils collected from the house of Daxing, Lingyuan. For more than 100 years, domestic and foreign scholars