中国の白亜紀初期に生息していた長尾の種を食べる鳥

Zhonghe Zhou1, Fucheng Zhang

  • 1Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, China. zhonghe@yeah.net

Nature
|July 26, 2002
PubMed
まとめ

中国で発見された新しい鳥の化石,Jeholornis primaは,鳥と恐竜のつながりを明らかにしています. この初期の鳥は,高度な飛行特徴と種を食べた証拠を示し,鳥類の進化についての理解を広げています.

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