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Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

Our knowledge of Cretaceous plumage is limited by the fossil record itself: compression fossils surrounding skeletons lack the finest morphological details and seldom preserve visible traces of colour, while discoveries in amber have been disassociated from their source animals. Here we report the o...

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Autores principales: Xing, Lida, McKellar, Ryan C., Wang, Min, Bai, Ming, O'Connor, Jingmai K., Benton, Michael J., Zhang, Jianping, Wang, Yan, Tseng, Kuowei, Lockley, Martin G., Li, Gang, Zhang, Weiwei, Xu, Xing
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/PMC4931330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27352215
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12089