A mesozoic gliding mammal from northeastern china

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	A mesozoic gliding mammal from northeastern china
	Meng, Jin; Hu, Yaoming; Wang, Yuanqing; Wang, Xiaolin; Li, Chuankui; jmeng@amnh.org
	2006
发表期刊	NATURE
ISSN	0028-0836
卷号	444 期号:7121 页码:889-893
摘要	Gliding flight has independently evolved many times in vertebrates. Direct evidence of gliding is rare in fossil records and is unknown in mammals from the Mesozoic era. Here we report a new Mesozoic mammal from Inner Mongolia, China, that represents a previously unknown group characterized by a highly specialized insectivorous dentition and a sizable patagium ( flying membrane) for gliding flight. The patagium is covered with dense hair and supported by an elongated tail and limbs; the latter also bear many features adapted for arboreal life. This discovery extends the earliest record of gliding flight for mammals to at least 70 million years earlier in geological history, and demonstrates that early mammals were diverse in their locomotor strategies and lifestyles; they had experimented with an aerial habit at about the same time as, if not earlier than, when birds endeavoured to exploit the sky.
关键词	Flying Squirrels Evolution Behavior Adaptations Dinosaurs Rodents Flight Bats Age
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4953
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）古低等脊椎动物研究室古哺乳动物研究室
通讯作者	jmeng@amnh.org
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Meng, Jin,Hu, Yaoming,Wang, Yuanqing,et al. A mesozoic gliding mammal from northeastern china[J]. NATURE,2006,444(7121):889-893.
APA	Meng, Jin,Hu, Yaoming,Wang, Yuanqing,Wang, Xiaolin,Li, Chuankui,&jmeng@amnh.org.(2006).A mesozoic gliding mammal from northeastern china.NATURE,444(7121),889-893.
MLA	Meng, Jin,et al."A mesozoic gliding mammal from northeastern china".NATURE 444.7121(2006):889-893.

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