Additional specimen of Microraptor provides unique evidence of dinosaurs preying on birds

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	Additional specimen of Microraptor provides unique evidence of dinosaurs preying on birds
	O'Connor, Jingmai; Zhou, Zhonghe; Xu, Xing; jingmai@usc.edu; zhouzhonghe@ivpp.ac.cn
	2011-12-06
发表期刊	PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ISSN	0027-8424
卷号	108 期号:49 页码:19662-19665
文章类型	Article
摘要	Preserved indicators of diet are extremely rare in the fossil record; even more so is unequivocal direct evidence for predator-prey relationships. Here, we report on a unique specimen of the small nonavian theropod Microraptor gui from the Early Cretaceous Jehol biota, China, which has the remains of an adult enantiornithine bird preserved in its abdomen, most likely not scavenged, but captured and consumed by the dinosaur. We provide direct evidence for the dietary preferences of Microraptor and a nonavian dinosaur feeding on a bird. Further, because Jehol enantiornithines were distinctly arboreal, in contrast to their cursorial ornithurine counterparts, this fossil suggests that Microraptor hunted in trees thereby supporting inferences that this taxon was also an arborealist, and provides further support for the arboreality of basal dromaeosaurids.
关键词	Flight Paleoecology
WOS标题词	Science & Technology
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关键词[WOS]	EARLY CRETACEOUS BIRD ; AVES ENANTIORNITHES ; THEROPOD DINOSAUR ; AVIAN FLIGHT ; CHINA ; EVOLUTION ; SELECTION ; SPAIN ; SIZE ; GUI
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000297683800050
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4361
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）古低等脊椎动物研究室
通讯作者	jingmai@usc.edu; zhouzhonghe@ivpp.ac.cn
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	O'Connor, Jingmai,Zhou, Zhonghe,Xu, Xing,et al. Additional specimen of Microraptor provides unique evidence of dinosaurs preying on birds[J]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,2011,108(49):19662-19665.
APA	O'Connor, Jingmai,Zhou, Zhonghe,Xu, Xing,jingmai@usc.edu,&zhouzhonghe@ivpp.ac.cn.(2011).Additional specimen of Microraptor provides unique evidence of dinosaurs preying on birds.PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,108(49),19662-19665.
MLA	O'Connor, Jingmai,et al."Additional specimen of Microraptor provides unique evidence of dinosaurs preying on birds".PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 108.49(2011):19662-19665.

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