A new enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China

Condor

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 432-437

  Wang, Xia ^a   Zhang, Zihui ^a   Gao, Chunling ^b   Hou, Lianhai ^a,c   Meng, Qingjin ^b   Liu, Jinyuan ^b  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Dalian Natural History Museum   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Early cretaceous; Enantiornithine; Huoshanornis hujigen. et sp. nov.; Manus; Sternum

Indexed keywords

AVES; TRABECULA;

EID: 77956931909     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2010.090248     Document Type: Article

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