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A new confuciusornithid bird with a secondary epiphyseal ossification reveals phylogenetic changes in confuciusornithid flight mode

The confuciusornithids are the earliest known beaked birds, and constitute the only species-rich clade of Early Cretaceous pygostylian birds that existed prior to the cladogenesis of Ornithothoraces. Here, we report a new confuciusornithid species from the Lower Cretaceous of western Liaoning, north...

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Autores principales: Wang, Renfei, Hu, Dongyu, Zhang, Meisheng, Wang, Shiying, Zhao, Qi, Sullivan, Corwin, Xu, Xing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9772404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36543908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04316-6