New occurrences of fossilized feathers: systematics and taphonomy of the Santana Formation of the Araripe Basin (Cretaceous), NE, Brazil

Here we describe three fossil feathers from the Early Cretaceous Santana Formation of the Araripe Basin, Brazil. Feathers are the most complex multiform vertebrate integuments; they perform different functions, occurring in both avian and non-avian dinosaurs. Despite their rarity, fossil feathers ha...

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Autores principales: Prado, Gustavo M.E.M., Anelli, Luiz Eduardo, Petri, Setembrino, Romero, Guilherme Raffaeli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2016
Materias:
Paleontology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4941790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27441102
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1916

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4941790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27441102
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1916

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