KMS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
New Early Cretaceous fossil from China documents a novel trophic specialization for Mesozoic birds | |
Hou, LH(侯连海); Chiappe, LM; Zhang, FC(张福成); Chuong, CM; Chuong, CM (reprint author), Univ So Calif, Dept Pathol, HMR 315B,2011 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90033 USA. | |
2004 | |
发表期刊 | NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN |
ISSN | 0028-1042 |
卷号 | 91期号:1页码:22—25 |
摘要 | We report on a new Mesozoic bird, Longirostravis hani, from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of northeastern China. The new taxon has a long, slender rostrum and mandible, and a small number of rostralmost teeth. Postcranial characters such as a furcular ramus wider ventrally than dorsally, a centrally concave proximal margin of the humeral head, and a minor metacarpal that projects distally more than the major metacarpal, support the placement of Longirostravis within euenantiornithine Enantiornithes, the most diverse clade of Mesozoic birds. The morphology of the skull, however, suggests that Longirostravis had a probing feeding behavior, a specialization previously unknown for Enantiornithes. Indeed, this discovery provides the first evidence in support of the existence of such a foraging behavior among basal lineages of Mesozoic birds. |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/3691 |
专题 | 中科院古脊椎所(2000年以后) |
通讯作者 | Chuong, CM (reprint author), Univ So Calif, Dept Pathol, HMR 315B,2011 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90033 USA. |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hou, LH,Chiappe, LM,Zhang, FC,et al. New Early Cretaceous fossil from China documents a novel trophic specialization for Mesozoic birds[J]. NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN,2004,91(1):22—25. |
APA | Hou, LH,Chiappe, LM,Zhang, FC,Chuong, CM,&Chuong, CM .(2004).New Early Cretaceous fossil from China documents a novel trophic specialization for Mesozoic birds.NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN,91(1),22—25. |
MLA | Hou, LH,et al."New Early Cretaceous fossil from China documents a novel trophic specialization for Mesozoic birds".NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN 91.1(2004):22—25. |
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