A beaked bird from the jurassic of China

Nature

Volumn 377, Issue 6550, 1995, Pages 616-618

  Hou, Lian Hai ^a   Zhou, Zhonghe ^a,b   Martin, Larry D ^b   Feduccia, Alan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAK; BIRD; CONFUCIUSORNIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; JURASSIC;

BEAK; BIRD; CHINA; CLIMBING; FEATHER; FORELIMB; FOWL; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; JURASSIC; LEG; MORPHOLOGY; SKELETON; TREE; TREE TRUNK;

CHINA, LIAONING;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; CONFUCIUSORNIS; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0029527124     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/377616a0     Document Type: Article

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