Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

doi:10.1038/ncomms12089

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	Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber
	Xing, Lida 1,2; McKellar, Ryan C.3,4; Wang, Min 5; Bai, Ming 6; O'Connor, Jingmai K.5; Benton, Michael J.7; Zhang, Jianping 2; Wang, Yan 8; Tseng, Kuowei 9; Lockley, Martin G.10; Li, Gang 11; Zhang, Weiwei 12; Xu, Xing 5
	2016-06-01
发表期刊	NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷号	7
文章类型	Article
摘要	Our knowledge of Cretaceous plumage is limited by the fossil record itself: compression fossils surrounding skeletons lack the finest morphological details and seldom preserve visible traces of colour, while discoveries in amber have been disassociated from their source animals. Here we report the osteology, plumage and pterylosis of two exceptionally preserved theropod wings from Burmese amber, with vestiges of soft tissues. The extremely small size and osteological development of the wings, combined with their digit proportions, strongly suggests that the remains represent precocial hatchlings of enantiornithine birds. These specimens demonstrate that the plumage types associated with modern birds were present within single individuals of Enantiornithes by the Cenomanian (99 million years ago), providing insights into plumage arrangement and microstructure alongside immature skeletal remains. This finding brings new detail to our understanding of infrequently preserved juveniles, including the first concrete examples of follicles, feather tracts and apteria in Cretaceous avialans.
WOS标题词	Science & Technology
DOI	10.1038/ncomms12089
关键词[WOS]	FEATHERS ; CHINA ; EVOLUTION ; ARCHAEOPTERYX ; ARRANGEMENT ; THEROPOD ; FLIGHT
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
项目资助者	National Basic Research Program of China (973 Project)(2012CB822000) ; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(2015-00681) ; National Geographic Society, USA(EC0768-15) ; National Natural Science Foundation of China(41402017) ; Scientific Research Equipment Development Project of Chinese Academy of Science(YZ201211 ; Innovation Project of BASIC, CAS(2014-01) ; National Science Fund for Fostering Talents in Basic Research(NSFC-J1210002) ; Special Fiscal Funds of Shaanxi Province(2013-19) ; Natural Environment Research Council (UK)(NE/I027630/1) ; Humboldt Fellowship ; YZ201509)
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000379113300001
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7018
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
作者单位	1.China Univ Geosci, State Key Lab Biogeol & Environm Geol, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China 2.China Univ Geosci, Sch Earth Sci & Resources, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China 3.Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Palaeontol, Regina, SK S4P 2V7, Canada 4.Univ Regina, Dept Biol, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Zool, Key Lab Zool Systemat & Evolut, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 7.Univ Bristol, Sch Earth Sci, Bristol BS8 1RJ, Avon, England 8.Linyi Univ, Inst Geol & Paleontol, Linyi 276000, Peoples R China 9.Univ Taipei, Dept Exercise & Hlth Sci, Taipei 11153, Taiwan 10.Univ Colorado, Dinosaur Tracks Museum, Denver, CO 80217 USA 11.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 12.POB 4680, Chongqing 400015, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xing, Lida,McKellar, Ryan C.,Wang, Min,et al. Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber[J]. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,2016,7.
APA	Xing, Lida.,McKellar, Ryan C..,Wang, Min.,Bai, Ming.,O'Connor, Jingmai K..,...&Xu, Xing.(2016).Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber.NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,7.
MLA	Xing, Lida,et al."Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber".NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 7(2016).

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