Phylogenetic support for a specialized clade of cretaceous enantiornithine birds with information from a new species

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 188-204

  O’Connor, Jingmai K ^a,b   Chiappe, Luis M ^a   Wang, Xuri ^c   Gao, Chunling ^c   Meng, Qingjin ^c   Cheng, Xiaodong ^c   Liu, Jinyuan ^c  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Dalian Natural History Museum   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLADISTICS; CRETACEOUS; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

AVES;

EID: 65349107111     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2009.10010371     Document Type: Article

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