A new feather type in a nonavian theropod and the early evolution of feathers

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

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 832-834

  Xu, Xing ^a   Zheng, Xiaoting ^b   You, Hailu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Display; Early cretaceous; Filament

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEATHER; FOSSIL ANIMAL; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; FEATHERS;

AVES; THEROPODA;

EID: 58849117702     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810055106     Document Type: Article

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