A diapsid skull in a new species of the primitive bird Confuciusornis

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6737, 1999, Pages 679-682

  Hou, Lianhal ^a   Martin, Larry D ^b   Zhou, Zhonghe ^a,b   Feduccia, Alan ^c   Zhang, Fucheng ^a  

^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

BIRD; MESOZOIC; NEW SPECIES;

ARTICLE; BIRD; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; JAW; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; SKULL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; CONFUCIUSORNIS; CONFUCIUSORNIS SANCTUS; REPTILIA;

EID: 0033578013     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21411     Document Type: Article

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