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A new basal bird from China with implications for morphological diversity in early birds

The Chinese Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group is the second oldest fossil bird-bearing deposit, only surpassed by Archaeopteryx from the German Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestones. Here we report a new bird, Chongmingia zhengi gen. et sp. nov., from the Jehol Biota. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that Ch...

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Autores principales: Wang, Min, Wang, Xiaoli, Wang, Yan, Zhou, Zhonghe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4726217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26806355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep19700