Low ecological disparity in early cretaceous birds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1787, 2014, Pages

  Mitchell, Jonathan S ^a,b   Makovicky, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird evolution; Functional diversity; Jehol biota; Palaeoecology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; AVIFAUNA; BIRD; CRETACEOUS; DIVERGENCE; ECOMORPHOLOGY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; PALEOECOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84901429300     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0608     Document Type: Article

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