A bizarre Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird with unique crural feathers and an ornithuromorph plough-shaped pygostyle

doi:10.1038/ncomms14141

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	A bizarre Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird with unique crural feathers and an ornithuromorph plough-shaped pygostyle
	Wang, Min 1; O'Connor, Jingmai K.1; Pan, Yanhong 2; Zhou, Zhonghe1
	2017-01-31
发表期刊	Nature Communications
卷号	8
文章类型	Article
摘要	Enantiornithes are the most successful clade of Mesozoic birds. Here, we describe a new enantiornithine bird, Cruralispennia multidonta gen. et sp. nov., from the Protopteryx-horizon of the Early Cretaceous Huajiying Formation of China. Despite being among the oldest known enantiornithines, Cruralispennia displays derived morphologies that are unexpected at such an early stage in the evolution of this clade. A plough-shaped pygostyle, like that of the Ornithuromorpha, evolved convergently in the Cruralispennia lineage, highlighting the homoplastic nature of early avian evolution. The extremely slender coracoid morphology was previously unknown among Early Cretaceous enantiornithines but is common in Late Cretaceous taxa, indicating that by 131 million years ago this clade had already experienced considerable morphological differentiation. Cruralispennia preserves unusual crural feathers that are proximally wire-like with filamentous distal tips, a new morphotype previously unknown among fossil or modern feathers, further increasing the known diversity of primitive feather morphologies.
WOS标题词	Science & Technology
DOI	10.1038/ncomms14141
关键词[WOS]	JEHOL BIOTA ; AVES ORNITHOTHORACES ; LEG FEATHERS ; AVIAN FLIGHT ; BODY-SIZE ; EVOLUTION ; CHINA ; DIVERSITY ; MORPHOLOGY ; DINOSAURS
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
项目资助者	National Natural Science Foundation of China(41502002 ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB18030504) ; 91514302)
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000393096800001
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7515
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）古低等脊椎动物研究室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, Key Lab Econ Stratig & Palaeogeog, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Min,O'Connor, Jingmai K.,Pan, Yanhong,et al. A bizarre Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird with unique crural feathers and an ornithuromorph plough-shaped pygostyle[J]. Nature Communications,2017,8.
APA	Wang, Min,O'Connor, Jingmai K.,Pan, Yanhong,&Zhou, Zhonghe.(2017).A bizarre Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird with unique crural feathers and an ornithuromorph plough-shaped pygostyle.Nature Communications,8.
MLA	Wang, Min,et al."A bizarre Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird with unique crural feathers and an ornithuromorph plough-shaped pygostyle".Nature Communications 8(2017).

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