Soft-tissue and dermal arrangement in the wing of an Early Cretaceous bird: Implications for the evolution of avian flight

Despite a wealth of fossils of Mesozoic birds revealing evidence of plumage and other soft-tissue structures, the epidermal and dermal anatomy of their wing’s patagia remain largely unknown. We describe a distal forelimb of an enantiornithine bird from the Lower Cretaceous limestones of Las Hoyas, S...

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Autores principales: Navalón, Guillermo, Marugán-Lobón, Jesús, Chiappe, Luis M., Luis Sanz, José, Buscalioni, Ángela D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4594305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26440221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep14864

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4594305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26440221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep14864

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