Piscivory in the feathered dinosaur microraptor

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2441-2445

  Xing, Lida ^a,b,c   Persons, W Scott ^c   Bell, Phil R ^d   Xu, Xing ^b   Zhang, Jianping ^a   Miyashita, Tetsuto ^b   Wang, Fengping ^e   Currie, Philip J ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Initiative   (Canada)

^e Qijiang District Bureau of Land Resources   (China)

Author keywords

Avian evolution; Dinosaurs; Fossil gut contents; Paleoecology; Paleontology; Piscivory

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARBOREAL SPECIES; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENERALIST; MICROHABITAT; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PISCIVORY; PRESERVATION; STOMACH CONTENT; TELEOST; TOOTH; TYPE SPECIMEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AVIAN EVOLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; DIET; DINOSAUR; ECOSYSTEM; FEATHER; FOSSIL; FOSSIL GUT CONTENTS; HISTOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PISCIVORY;

AVIAN EVOLUTION; DINOSAURS; FOSSIL GUT CONTENTS; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PISCIVORY;

ANIMALS; DIET; DINOSAURS; ECOSYSTEM; FEATHERS; FOSSILS;

AVES; DINOSAURIA; DROMAEOSAURIDAE; TELEOSTEI; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 84880795552     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12119     Document Type: Article

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