Insight into the early evolution of the avian sternum from juvenile enantiornithines

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zheng, Xiaoting ^a,b   Wang, Xiaoli ^a   O'Connor, Jingmai ^c   Zhou, Zhonghe ^c  

^a LINYI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tianyu Natural History Museum of Shandong   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AVIFAUNA; CLADISTICS; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; HOMOLOGY; JUVENILE; MORPHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CHINA; CLADISTICS; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OSSIFICATION; PALEONTOLOGY; STERNUM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; CHINA; PALEONTOLOGY; STERNUM;

CHINA;

AVES; DINOSAURIA; ENANTIORNITHES;

EID: 84869464110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2104     Document Type: Article

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