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chinese avialae fossil-thoughts?
ecclector posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hey all, I was tracking this item being auctioned and did NOT win it but was still interested in what people thought of it. Looks good quality, was wondering if anyone had a guess on species. Some type of enantiornithes? Info from auction description: Age : Early Cretaceous (125 million years ago) Locality : Yixian Formation, Liaoning Province -
From the album: Hell Creek / Lance Formations
Even in the final years of the non-avian dinosaurs, the paravians remained diverse, with many species represented in the famed Hell Creek formation.- 1 comment
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A news article about the first Early Cretaceous avialan from Japan is available at the following link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/newly-discovered-fossil-bird-fills-gap-between-dinosaurs-and-modern-fliers-180973551/ Fukuipteryx is the first Early Cretaceous non-ornithothoracine avialan to be described from an Asian locality outside China or Mongolia. Since Fukuipteryx has a pygostyle and is recovered as basal to Jeholornis, it is unclear whether some non-pygostylian birds had a pygostyle. Link for original description of Fukuipteryx: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0639-4
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