Fósiles y evolución aviar

A Feduccia1

  • 1Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-3280, USA. feduccia@bio.unc.edu

Nature
|December 6, 2001
PubMed
Resumen

Recientes descubrimientos de fósiles han iluminado la evolución temprana de las aves, particularmente las aves arcaicas del Mesozoico. Sin embargo, los orniturinos del Cretácico temprano, cruciales para comprender los orígenes de las aves modernas, siguen siendo poco conocidos debido a su rareza.

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