A bizarre Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird with unique crural feathers and an ornithuromorph plough-shaped pygostyle

Enantiornithes are the most successful clade of Mesozoic birds. Here, we describe a new enantiornithine bird, Cruralispennia multidonta gen. et sp. nov., from the Protopteryx-horizon of the Early Cretaceous Huajiying Formation of China. Despite being among the oldest known enantiornithines, Cruralis...

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Autores principales: Wang, Min, O'Connor, Jingmai K, Pan, Yanhong, Zhou, Zhonghe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5290326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28139644
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14141

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5290326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28139644
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14141

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