Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

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

  • Min Wang,
  • Jingmai K O’Connor,
  • Yanhong Pan,
  • Zhonghe Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14141
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Although now extinct, Enantiornithes was the most diverse group of birds in the Mesozoic. Here, Wang and colleagues describe a new species of enantiornithine bird from 131 million years ago with features that suggest extensive diversification had occurred in the enantiornithines by this time.