A new diminutive species of bohaiornithid enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group, northern China DOI Creative Commons

Caizhi Shen,

Alexander D. Clark, Hui Fang

et al.

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(1)

Published: Dec. 28, 2024

Language: Английский

A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation with unusually short pubes DOI
Jingmai K. O’Connor, Jessie Atterholt, Alexander D. Clark

et al.

Geobios, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Insights into the early evolution of modern avian physiology from fossilized soft tissues from the Mesozoic DOI
Jingmai K. O’Connor

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 380(1920)

Published: Feb. 27, 2025

Modern birds (Neornithes) are the mostly highly modified group of amniotes, bearing little resemblance to other extant sauropsids. Archaeopteryx , with its nearly modern wings but plesiomorphic skeleton, demonstrated more than 160 years ago that soft tissue specializations preceded skeletal modifications for flight. Soft tissues thus great importance understanding early evolution avian physiology. Most commonly, traces integumentary system preserved; exceptional discoveries include remnants organs. Together, these have helped elucidate lungs, ovaries, plumage and beak in diverging birds. These fossils reveal many important adaptations efficient digestion, high oxygen intake, reduced body mass improved wing structure, all which serve improve aerial capabilities and/or meet energetic demands this costly form locomotion, evolved within first 20–30 Myr evolution. preservation also provides clues ecology may even extinction certain groups. However, current fossil record Mesozoic is almost entirely limited Early Cretaceous thus, from Late potential drastically transform our interpretation available data. This article part theme issue ‘The biology respiratory system’.

Language: Английский

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A new gansuid bird (Avialae, Euornithes) from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Jiufotang Formation of Jianchang, western Liaoning, China DOI Creative Commons
Xuri Wang, Andrea Cau,

Yinuo Wang

et al.

Cretaceous Research, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 106014 - 106014

Published: Sept. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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A new diminutive species of bohaiornithid enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group, northern China DOI Creative Commons

Caizhi Shen,

Alexander D. Clark, Hui Fang

et al.

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(1)

Published: Dec. 28, 2024

Language: Английский

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0