Gastroliths in Yanornis: An indication of the earliest radical diet-switching and gizzard plasticity in the lineage leading to living birds?

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 571-574

  Zhou, Zhonghe ^a   Clarke, Julia ^b   Zhang, Fucheng ^a   Wings, Oliver ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c Niedersachsisches Landesmuseum H   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CRETACEOUS; DIETARY SHIFT; FOSSIL RECORD;

ARTICLE; AVIAN STOMACH; BIRD; FISH; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; YANORNIS MARTINI;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHINA; DIET; FOSSILS; GIZZARD; STOMACH;

AVES;

EID: 11244318239     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-004-0567-z     Document Type: Article

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