Quantitative investigation of pengornithid enantiornithine diet reveals macrocarnivorous ecology evolved in birds by Early Cretaceous

The diet of Mesozoic birds is poorly known, limiting evolutionary understanding of birds’ roles in modern ecosystems. Pengornithidae is one of the best understood families of Mesozoic birds, hypothesized to eat insects or only small amounts of meat. We investigate these hypotheses with four lines of...

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Autores principales: Miller, Case Vincent, Pittman, Michael, Wang, Xiaoli, Zheng, Xiaoting, Bright, Jen A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10009206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36923002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106211

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10009206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36923002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106211

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