Previously Unrecognized Ornithuromorph Bird Diversity in the Early Cretaceous Changma Basin, Gansu Province, Northwestern China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Ya Ming ^a,b   O'Connor, Jingmai K ^b,c   Li, Da Qing ^d   You, Hai Lu ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d Gansu Geological Museum   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY MASS; CHANGMAORNIS HOUI; CHINA; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FAUNA; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GANSUS YUMENENSIS; JIUQUANORNIS NIUI; LOWER CRETACEOUS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; ORNITHUROMORPH BIRD; PHYLOGENY; RURAL AREA; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; YUMENORNIS HUANGI;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHINA; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84885417766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077693     Document Type: Article

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