Flight aerodynamics in enantiornithines: Information from a new Chinese Early Cretaceous bird

We describe an exquisitely preserved new avian fossil (BMNHC-PH-919) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of eastern Inner Mongolia, China. Although morphologically similar to Cathayornithidae and other small-sized enantiornithines from China’s Jehol Biota, many morphological features indicate...

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Autores principales: Liu, Di, Chiappe, Luis M., Serrano, Francisco, Habib, Michael, Zhang, Yuguang, Meng, Qinjing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5636078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29020077
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184637

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5636078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29020077
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184637

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