Synthetic analysis of trophic diversity and evolution in Enantiornithes with new insights from Bohaiornithidae DOI Creative Commons
Case Vincent Miller, Jen A. Bright, Xiaoli Wang

и другие.

eLife, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 12

Опубликована: Сен. 12, 2023

Enantiornithines were the dominant birds of Mesozoic, but understanding their diet is still tenuous. We introduce new data on enantiornithine family Bohaiornithidae, famous for large size and powerfully built teeth claws. In tandem with previously published data, we comment breadth ecology potential patterns in which it evolved. Body mass, jaw mechanical advantage, finite element analysis jaw, traditional morphometrics claws skull are compared between bohaiornithids living birds. find to be more ecologically diverse than any other family: Bohaiornis Parabohaiornis similar plant-eating birds; Longusunguis resembles raptorial carnivores; Zhouornis both fruit-eating generalist feeders; Shenqiornis Sulcavis plausibly ate fish, plants, or a mix both. predict ancestral bird have been wide variety foods. However, quantitative from across tree needed refine this prediction. By Early Cretaceous, had diversified into ecological niches like crown after K-Pg extinction, adding evidence that traits unique cannot completely explain success.

Язык: Английский

Evidence of piscivorous diet in an enantiornithine bird from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil DOI

Fernando Luiz Kilesse Salgado,

Luis M. Chiappe, Reiner Neumann

и другие.

Cretaceous Research, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 106161 - 106161

Опубликована: Май 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

0
Synthetic analysis of trophic diversity and evolution in Enantiornithes with new insights from Bohaiornithidae DOI Creative Commons
Case Vincent Miller, Jen A. Bright, Xiaoli Wang

и другие.

eLife, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 12

Опубликована: Сен. 12, 2023

Enantiornithines were the dominant birds of Mesozoic, but understanding their diet is still tenuous. We introduce new data on enantiornithine family Bohaiornithidae, famous for large size and powerfully built teeth claws. In tandem with previously published data, we comment breadth ecology potential patterns in which it evolved. Body mass, jaw mechanical advantage, finite element analysis jaw, traditional morphometrics claws skull are compared between bohaiornithids living birds. find to be more ecologically diverse than any other family: Bohaiornis Parabohaiornis similar plant-eating birds; Longusunguis resembles raptorial carnivores; Zhouornis both fruit-eating generalist feeders; Shenqiornis Sulcavis plausibly ate fish, plants, or a mix both. predict ancestral bird have been wide variety foods. However, quantitative from across tree needed refine this prediction. By Early Cretaceous, had diversified into ecological niches like crown after K-Pg extinction, adding evidence that traits unique cannot completely explain success.

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

2