KMS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
A NEW EARLY CRETACEOUS ENANTIORNITHINE (AVES, ORNITHOTHORACES) FROM NORTHWESTERN CHINA WITH ELABORATE TAIL ORNAMENTATION | |
O'Connor, Jingmai K.1; Li, Da-Qing2; Lamanna, Matthew C.3; Wang, Min1; Harris, Jerald D.4; Atterholt, Jessie5; You, Hai-Lu1 | |
2016-01-02 | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY |
卷号 | 36期号:1 |
文章类型 | Article |
摘要 | We provide a detailed description of a well-preserved enantiornithine specimen (GSGM-05-CM-004) from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Xiagou Formation of northwestern Gansu Province, China, for which we erect the new taxon Feitianius paradisi, gen. et sp. nov. This specimen has a distinctive pelvic morphology and can be further distinguished from all other Mesozoic birds by a unique caudal plumage formed by multiple rectricial morphotypes. This newly documented tail morphology reveals a previously unrecognized level of complexity in the plumage of basal birds. This complex tail-feather morphology has a parallel in extant sexually dimorphic birds in which the males have the most altered tails; thus, we identify this specimen as male. Ornamental tail morphologies, such as the novel tail plumage described here, dominate Enantiornithes. This reinforces hypotheses that sexual selection was a major driving force in the evolution of basal bird plumage. |
WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
DOI | 10.1080/02724634.2015.1054035 |
关键词[WOS] | GANSU PROVINCE ; SEXUAL SELECTION ; AVIAN FLIGHT ; ORNITHURINE BIRD ; XIAGOU FORMATION ; EARLY EVOLUTION ; NORTHERN HEBEI ; CHANGMA BASIN ; FEATHERS ; MORPHOLOGY |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
项目资助者 | National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program)(2012CB821906) ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Gansu Provincial Bureau of Geo-Exploration and Mineral Development ; Carnegie Museum of Natural History |
WOS研究方向 | Paleontology |
WOS类目 | Paleontology |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000370007100019 |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7130 |
专题 | 中科院古脊椎所(2000年以后) |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, 142 Xizhimenwai Dajie, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Gansu Geol Museum, 6 Tuanjie Rd, Lanzhou 730010, Gansu, Peoples R China 3.Carnegie Museum Nat Hist, Sect Vertebrate Paleontol, 4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA 4.Dixie State Coll, Dept Phys Sci, 225 South 700 East, St George, UT 84770 USA 5.Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Integrat Biol, 1101 Valley Life Sci Bldg, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | O'Connor, Jingmai K.,Li, Da-Qing,Lamanna, Matthew C.,et al. A NEW EARLY CRETACEOUS ENANTIORNITHINE (AVES, ORNITHOTHORACES) FROM NORTHWESTERN CHINA WITH ELABORATE TAIL ORNAMENTATION[J]. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY,2016,36(1). |
APA | O'Connor, Jingmai K..,Li, Da-Qing.,Lamanna, Matthew C..,Wang, Min.,Harris, Jerald D..,...&You, Hai-Lu.(2016).A NEW EARLY CRETACEOUS ENANTIORNITHINE (AVES, ORNITHOTHORACES) FROM NORTHWESTERN CHINA WITH ELABORATE TAIL ORNAMENTATION.JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY,36(1). |
MLA | O'Connor, Jingmai K.,et al."A NEW EARLY CRETACEOUS ENANTIORNITHINE (AVES, ORNITHOTHORACES) FROM NORTHWESTERN CHINA WITH ELABORATE TAIL ORNAMENTATION".JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 36.1(2016). |
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