A new Lower Cretaceous bird from China and tooth reduction in early avian evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1679, 2010, Pages 219-227

  Zhou, Zhonghe ^a   Zhang, Fucheng ^a   Li, Zhiheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Beak; Bird evolution; China; Lower cretaceous

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; CRETACEOUS; DIVERSITY INDEX; FLIGHT; FOSSIL RECORD; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; NEW TAXON; PHYLOGENETICS; TOOTH;

CHINA; LIAONING;

AVES; CONFUCIUSORNIS; ENANTIORNITHES; JEHOLORNIS; ORNITHURAE; SAPEORNIS;

EID: 75749110139     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0885     Document Type: Article

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