A new species of Jeholornis with complete caudal integument

Historical Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-41

  O'Connor, Jingmai K ^a   Sun, Chengkai ^b   Xu, Xing ^a   Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Zhou, Zhonghe ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b Shandong Museum   (China)

Author keywords

feathers; Jehol Group; Jeholornis; long tailed birds; rectrix

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BODY SHAPE; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; CRETACEOUS; EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; NEW TAXON; PALEONTOLOGY; PLUMAGE; TAXONOMY;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; JEHOLORNIS;

EID: 84863182533     PISSN: 08912963     EISSN: 10292381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2011.552720     Document Type: Article

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