Insight into diversity, body size and morphological evolution from the largest Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 212, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 565-577

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

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird evolution; China; Early Cretaceous; Enantiornithes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; LOWER CRETACEOUS; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; BONE AND BONES; CHINA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY;

AVES; ENANTIORNITHES; ORNITHURAE;

EID: 42649085397     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.00880.x     Document Type: Article

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