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Provedor de dados: | Nature Precedings
País: | United Kingdom
Título: | A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathers
Autores: | Fucheng Zhang; Zhonghe Zhou; Xing Xu; Xiaolin Wang; Corwin Sullivan.
Data: | 2008-09-24
Ano: | 2008
Palavras-chave: | Developmental Biology; Ecology; Earth &amp; Environment.
Resumo: | Recent coelurosaurian discoveries have greatly enriched our knowledge of the dinosaur-bird transition, but all reported taxa close to this transition are from relatively well-known coelurosaurian groups^1-3^. Here we report a new basal avialan, Epidexipteryx hui gen. et sp. nov., from the Middle-Late Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. This new species is characterized by an unexpected combination of characters seen in several different theropod groups, particularly the Oviraptorosauria. Phylogenetic analysis shows it to be the sister taxon to Epidendrosaurus^4,5^, forming a new clade at the base of Avialae^6^. Epidexipteryx also possesses two pairs of elongate ribbon-like tail feathers (ETFs), and its limbs lack contour feathers for flight. This finding shows that a member of the avialan lineage experimented with integumentary ornamentation as early as the Middle-Late Jurassic, and provides further evidence relating to this important aspect of the transition from non-avian theropods to birds.
Tipo: | Manuscript

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http://precedings.nature.com/documents/2326/version/1

oai:nature.com:10.1038/npre.2008.2326.1

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2008.2326.1

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