A New Enantiornithine (Aves) Preserved in Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber Contributes to Growing Diversity of Cretaceous Plumage Patterns

A New Enantiornithine (Aves) Preserved in Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber Contributes to Growing Diversity of Cretaceous Plumage Patterns

Recent discoveries of enantiornithine birds trapped in amber have decreased the lower size limit of members of this clade, increased their morphological diversity, and provided significant new data regarding their plumage. Here, we describe a new specimen that consists of the distal extremities of b...

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Main Authors: Lida Xing, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Kecheng Niu, Pierre Cockx, Huijuan Mai, Ryan C. McKellar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
Subjects:
enantiornithes
remiges
flight feathers
plumage patterns
limb proportions
intermembral index
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2020.00264/full

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