Daniel R. Lawver, Aj M. Debee, Julia A. Clarke, Guillermo W. Rougier,
Enantiornithes is a diverse clade of Mesozoic birds first recognized from the Upper Cretaceous sediments of a ... scars. The following characters support its referral to Enantiornithes: (1) weakly developed distal condyles; (2) anteroposterior distal ... epicondyle. The specimen is differentiated from most other Enantiornithes by the development of a ridge on the ... American diversity in Avialae and morphological diversity in Enantiornithes. Further material will elucidate the phylogenetic relationships and ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2011 - | Annals of Carnegie Museum
Zhonghe Zhou, Julia A. Clarke, Fucheng Zhang,
... major lineages, namely Ornithurae, including living birds, and Enantiornithes, a major radiation traditionally referred to as 'opposite ... China, which provides evidence that basal members of Enantiornithes share more morphologies with ornithurine birds than previously ... to be largely parallel, with derived members of Enantiornithes convergent on the 'advanced' flight capabilities of ornithurine ... extends the size range known for Early Cretaceous Enantiornithes significantly and provides evidence of forelimb to hind ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2008 - Wiley | Journal of Anatomy
Shumin Liu, Zhiheng Li, Alida M. Bailleul, Min Wang, Jingmai K. O’Connor,
... has been recovered from Jehol deposits for the Enantiornithes. A referred specimen of Bohaiornis guoi IVPP V17963 ... precipitate. Considering the limited evidence regarding diet in Enantiornithes and the importance of accurately identifying the traces ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2021 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Earth Science
... parvus, which is recovered deeply nested within the Enantiornithes. We hypothesize that the craniolateral processes of the ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2020 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
... clade containing extant birds but not the Mesozoic Enantiornithes. Histological analysis reveals that the cortex is composed ... growth in the common ancestor of Ornithuromorpha and Enantiornithes. The fusion sequence of the tarsometatarsus between Enantiornithes and Ornithuromorpha has long been hypothesized to be ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2017 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
... clade containing extant birds but not the Mesozoic Enantiornithes. Histological analysis reveals that the cortex is composed ... growth in the common ancestor of Ornithuromorpha and Enantiornithes. The fusion sequence of the tarsometatarsus between Enantiornithes and Ornithuromorpha has long been hypothesized to be ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2016 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
Enantiornithes is the most diverse Mesozoic avian clade. Approximately half of the known global diversity of Enantiornithes is from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of ... the new taxon in a derived position within Enantiornithes. The specimen is disarticulated with several exceptionally well- ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2015 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
C. A. Walker, Éric Buffetaut, Gareth J. Dyke,
... We review historical approaches to the systematics of Enantiornithes, the dominant birds of the second half of ... such a wide geographical distribution is uncharacteristic for Enantiornithes as most taxa are known from single localities. ... systematics and taxonomy of additional isolated bones of Enantiornithes that were collected from the Argentine El Brete ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2007 - Cambridge University Press | Geological Magazine
Jingmai K. O’Connor, Xiaoting Zheng, Yanhong Pan, Xiaoli Wang, Yan Wang, Xiaomei Zhang, Zhonghe Zhou,
... unusual morphologies that are otherwise absent in the Enantiornithes but common in the Ornithuromorpha such as the ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2020 - Elsevier BV | Cretaceous Research
Lida Xing, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Ryan C. McKellar, Luis M. Chiappe, Kuo‐Wei Tseng, Gang Li, Ming Bai,
... as a member of the extinct avian clade Enantiornithes. Preserved soft tissue provides the unique opportunity to ... tail suggest that first generation feathers in the Enantiornithes may have been much more like contour feathers ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2017 - Elsevier BV | Gondwana Research
David J. Varricchio, Frankie D. Jackson,
... of reproduction in primitive Mesozoic birds (e.g., Enantiornithes).The fossil evidence from Mesozoic birds and non- ... oviraptor-grade maniraptorans, (3) troodontid-grade paravians, (4) Enantiornithes, and (5) basal Neornithes.Major changes occurred incrementally ...
Tópico(s): Avian ecology and behavior
2016 - Oxford University Press | Ornithology
Min Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Graeme T. Lloyd, Xiaoli Wang, Yan Wang, Xiaomei Zhang, Zhonghe Zhou,
... clade containing extant birds but not the Mesozoic Enantiornithes. The early evolutionary history of this avian clade ... discoveries from Cretaceous deposits, indicating that Ornithuromorpha and Enantiornithes are the two major avian groups in Mesozoic. ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2015 - Nature Portfolio | Nature Communications
Han Hu, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Zhonghe Zhou,
... reveals are remarkable amount of locomotive differentiation among Enantiornithes.
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2015 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Н. В. Зеленков, Alexander O. Averianov,
... the new taxon or very poorly known for Enantiornithes. A previously unobserved specialized cervical morphology, the development ... evolutionary pathway for the loss of teeth in Enantiornithes, as compared with Ornithuromorpha. The only preserved cervical ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2015 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
Johan Dalsätt, Per G. P. Ericson, Zhonge ZHOU,
... species, Grabauornis lingyuanensis , shares several synapomorphies with the Enantiornithes. The specimen is relatively well preserved. The skeletal ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2014 - Wiley | Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition
Zhiheng Li, Zhonghe Zhou, Min Wang, Julia A. Clarke,
... of diet is so far unknown in other Enantiornithes. Specifically the lack of “stomach stones” or gastroliths ... consistent with a raptorial ecology previously unknown for Enantiornithes and considered rare for Avialae. While rostrum shape ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2014 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of Paleontology
Yuguang Zhang, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Di Liu, Meng Qing-jin, Trond Sigurdsen, Luis M. Chiappe,
... is suggestive of a unique ecological specialization within Enantiornithes. The morphology of the new specimen is largely ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2014 - PeerJ, Inc. | PeerJ
Jingmai K. O’Connor, Zhonghe Zhou,
... several other groups of Mesozoic birds (Confuciusornithiformes, Sapeornithiformes, Enantiornithes). Although preserved information is limited, the large number ... gap separating the two ornithothoracine clades (Ornithurae and Enantiornithes), and thus the increase in taxonomic diversity has ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2012 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
Jingmai K. O’Connor, Gareth J. Dyke,
... reassessment of Sinornis santensis and Cathayornis yandica (Aves: Enantiornithes). In Proceedings of the VII International Meeting of ...
Tópico(s): Avian ecology and behavior
2010 - Australian Museum | Records of the Australian Museum
Xuri Wang, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Bo Zhao, Luis M. Chiappe, Gao Chunling, Xiaodong Cheng,
... likely represents a previously unknown trophic specialization within Enantiornithes.
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2010 - Wiley | Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition
... the following specific skull structures other than many Enantiornithes:a long,thick and strong jaws; greatly caudally ... only provides new data on the diversity of Enantiornithes,but also indicates the complicated radiation of early ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2010 - Paleontological Society of China | Gushengwu xuebao
Eric M. Morschhauser, David J. Varricchio, Gao Chunling, Liu Jinyuan, Xuri Wang, Cheng Xiadong, Meng Qing-jin,
... though the life stages of members of the Enantiornithes will not be clear until a complete ontogenetic ... is here confirmed in a member of the Enantiornithes for the first time in the literature, adding ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2009 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Julia A. Clarke, Kevin M. Middleton,
... flighted avialan species that is part of the Enantiornithes (Figure 1) and thus comparatively early after the ... sexually dimorphic tail feathers were present (Confuciusornithidae and Enantiornithes; Figure 1). These latter taxa suggest an important ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2006 - Elsevier BV | Current Biology
Lianhai Hou, Luis M. Chiappe, Fucheng Zhang, Cheng‐Ming Chuong,
... metacarpal, support the placement of Longirostravis within euenantiornithine Enantiornithes, the most diverse clade of Mesozoic birds. The ... probing feeding behavior, a specialization previously unknown for Enantiornithes. Indeed, this discovery provides the first evidence in ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2004 - Springer Science+Business Media | The Science of Nature
Luis M. Chiappe, Lawrence M. Witmer,
... ZHONGHE AND HOU LIANHAI 8. Sinornis santensis (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the Early Cretaceous of Northeastern China PAUL ... Morphology and Systematics of the Cretaceous Euenantiornithes (Ornithothoraces: Enantiornithes) LUIS M. CHIAPPE AND CYRIL A. WALKER 12. ...
Tópico(s): Avian ecology and behavior
2003 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
Éric Buffetaut, Patrick Méchin, Annie Méchin-Salessy,
... southern France) is described and referred to the Enantiornithes. Taken together with other recent discoveries of Late ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2000 - | Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science
KEVIN PADIAN, Luis M. Chiappe,
... most diverse known group of Cretaceous birds, the Enantiornithes, was not even recognized until 1981.The vast ... of Mesozoic bird groups have no Tertiary records : Enantiornithes, Hesperornithiformes, Ichthyornithiformes and several other lineages disappeared by ...
Tópico(s): Avian ecology and behavior
1998 - Wiley | Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Kevin Padian, Luis M. Chiappe,
... most diverse known group of Cretaceous birds, the Enantiornithes, was not even recognized until 1981. The vast ... of Mesozoic bird groups have no Tertiary records: Enantiornithes, Hesperornithiformes, Ichthyornithiformes and several other lineages disappeared by ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
1998 - Wiley | Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Luis M. Chiappe, Jorge O. Calvo,
... and thoracic vertebrae, support its allocation to the Enantiornithes. The tarsometatarsal structure of Neuquenornis refers it to ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
1994 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
... and support reference of this taxon within the Enantiornithes. Three other synapomorphies (laterally compressed, J-shaped metatarsal ... family Avisauridae are assigned to the avian subclass Enantiornithes.
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
1992 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology