Locomotory abilities and habitat of the Cretaceous bird Gansus yumenensis inferred from limb length proportions

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 150-154

  Nudds, R L ^a   Atterholt, J ^b   Wang, X ^c   You, H L ^d   Dyke, G J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diving; Flight; Fossil; Locomotion; Morphology; Ternary diagram

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CRETACEOUS; DIVING BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION; FLIGHT; FOSSIL RECORD; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; MOVEMENT; ORNITHOLOGY; PALEOBIOLOGY; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT; WATERFOWL; WING;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHINA; FEMUR; FLYING; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; HUMERUS; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHINA; EXTREMITIES; FEMUR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; HUMERUS; LOCOMOTION; WING;

CHINA;

APODIFORMES; AVES; DIOMEDEIDAE; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PODICIPEDIDAE; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 84871060805     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12036     Document Type: Article

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