A new feathered maniraptoran dinosaur fossil that fills a morphological gap in avian origin

2008/12/16 by Xing Xu, Qi Zhao, Mark A. Norell +11 · 16 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology

paper · doi:10.1007/s11434-009-0009-6

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