Fossil evidence of wing shape in a stem relative of swifts and hummingbirds (Aves, Pan-Apodiformes)

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ksepka, Daniel T ^a,b,e   Clarke, Julia A ^b,c   Nesbitt, Sterling J ^b,c,d   Kulp, Felicia B ^c   Grande, Lance ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apodiformes; Aves; Eocene; Feathers; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; BONE STRUCTURE; EOCYPSELUS ROWEI; FEATHER; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; FOSSIL ANIMAL; NORTH AMERICA; PHALANX; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WING SHAPE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; FEATHERS; FOSSILS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHYLOGENY; WING; WYOMING;

BIRD; BODY SIZE; EOCENE; FEATHER; FLIGHT; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; SKELETAL REMAINS; SPECIALIZATION; TYPE SPECIMEN; WING MORPHOLOGY;

GREEN RIVER; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

APODIFORMES; AVES; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 84878331368     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0580     Document Type: Article

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