A Jurassic ceratosaur from China helps clarify avian digital homologies

Nature

Volumn 459, Issue 7249, 2009, Pages 940-944

  Xu, Xing ^a   Clark, James M ^b   Mo, Jinyou ^c,d   Choiniere, Jonah ^b   Forster, Catherine A ^b   Erickson, Gregory M ^e   Hone, David W E ^a   Sullivan, Corwin ^a   Eberth, David A ^f   Nesbitt, Sterling ^g   Zhao, Qi ^a   Hernandez, Rene ^h   Jia, Cheng Kai ⁱ   Han, Feng Lu ^a,j   Guo, Yu ^a,j  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Natural History Museum of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region   (China)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^e FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

^g DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

ⁱ CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (China)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOMOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; OXFORDIAN; REPTILE; TAXONOMY;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOSAUR; FINGER; FOWL; JURASSIC; METACARPAL BONE; NONHUMAN; OXFORDIAN; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXON;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHINA; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

AVES; TETRAPODA; THEROPODA;

EID: 67649243726     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08124     Document Type: Article

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