Discovery of an ornithurine bird and its implication for Early Cretaceous avian radiation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 52, 2005, Pages 18998-19002

  Zhou, Zhonghe ^a   Zhang, Fucheng ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beak; Evolutionary radiation; Fossil bird; Inner Mongolia

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BEAK; BODY SIZE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHINA; CRETACEOUS; DIETARY INTAKE; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; HONGSHANORNIS LONGICRESTA; NONHUMAN; ORNITHURINE BIRD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BONE AND BONES; CHINA; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; PALEONTOLOGY; SKELETON;

AVES; DINOSAURIA; ORNITHISCHIA; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 30044431588     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507106102     Document Type: Article

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