mesozoicbirdsofchinaanintroductionandreview

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	mesozoicbirdsofchinaanintroductionandreview
	Zhou Zhonghe; Zhang Fucheng
	2004
发表期刊	动物学报
ISSN	0001-7302
卷号	50 期号:4 页码:913
摘要	Over the last decade, more Mesozoic birds have been discovered from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province in northeast China than from any other region on earth. Chinese Mesozoic birds represent the earliest significant avian diversification yet known after the oldest known bird Archaeopteryx appeared in the fossil record about 20 million years earlier. They not only include a long-tailed form reminiscent of dinosaurian ancestry but also comprise many other special or derived forms, such as the oldest-known beaked bird, the largest Early Cretaceous bird, the most primitive enantiornithine bird and the best preserved ornithurine bird, with a flight apparatus nearly identical to that of modern birds. Remarkable evolutionary, morphological and ecological differentiation, such as in flight, size and diet, are well documented by the Chinese fossils. The long-tailed, basal bird Jeholornis bears a remarkable resemblance to dromaeosaur dinosaurs, thus providing important clues in support of the dinosaurian origin of birds. Chinese Early Cretaceous birds, as well as arboreal dinosaurs of the same age in China, also provide compelling evidence for the arboreal hypothesis of the origin ofavian flight. The 'Dinosaur-trees-down' hypothesis, which combines the dinosaurian origin of birds and the arboreal hypothesis of avian flight, is thus well collaborated. Because feathers were present in various dinosaurs, the association of endothermy with feathers becomes purely speculative; endothermy probably did not develop in birds until the Early CretaceousActa Zoologica Sinica 50(6):913-920,2004.
语种	英语
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/16453
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
作者单位	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
第一作者单位	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhou Zhonghe,Zhang Fucheng. mesozoicbirdsofchinaanintroductionandreview[J]. 动物学报,2004,50(4):913.
APA	Zhou Zhonghe,&Zhang Fucheng.(2004).mesozoicbirdsofchinaanintroductionandreview.动物学报,50(4),913.
MLA	Zhou Zhonghe,et al."mesozoicbirdsofchinaanintroductionandreview".动物学报 50.4(2004):913.