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

и другие.

Scientific Reports, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 14(1)

Опубликована: Дек. 28, 2024

Язык: 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

и другие.

Geobios, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: 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, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 380(1920)

Опубликована: Фев. 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’.

Язык: 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

и другие.

Cretaceous Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 106014 - 106014

Опубликована: Сен. 1, 2024

Язык: 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

и другие.

Scientific Reports, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 14(1)

Опубликована: Дек. 28, 2024

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

0