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A new specimen of the Early Cretaceous bird Hongshanornis longicresta: insights into the aerodynamics and diet of a basal ornithuromorph

The discovery of Hongshanornis longicresta, a small ornithuromorph bird with unusually long hindlimb proportions, was followed by the discovery of two closely related species, Longicrusavis houi and Parahongshanornis chaoyangensis. Together forming the Hongshanornithidae, these species reveal import...

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Autores principales: Chiappe, Luis M., Zhao, Bo, O’Connor, Jingmai K., Chunling, Gao, Wang, Xuri, Habib, Michael, Marugan-Lobon, Jesus, Meng, Qingjin, Cheng, Xiaodong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3898307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24482756
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.234