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An Early Cretaceous enantiornithine (Aves) preserving an unlaid egg and probable medullary bone

Understanding non-crown dinosaur reproduction is hindered by a paucity of directly associated adults with reproductive traces. Here we describe a new enantiornithine, Avimaia schweitzerae gen. et sp. nov., from the Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation with an unlaid egg two-dimensionally preserved with...

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Autores principales: Bailleul, Alida M., O’Connor, Jingmai, Zhang, Shukang, Li, Zhiheng, Wang, Qiang, Lamanna, Matthew C., Zhu, Xufeng, Zhou, Zhonghe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6426974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30894527
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09259-x