Cretaceous bird with dinosaur skull sheds light on avian cranial evolution
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| 作者 | Wang, Min2,3 ; Stidham, Thomas A.1,2,3; Li, Zhiheng2,3; Xu, Xing2,3; Zhou, Zhonghe2,3
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| 刊名 | NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
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| 出版日期 | 2021-06-23 |
| 卷号 | 12期号:1页码:9 |
| ISSN号 | 2041-1723 |
| DOI | 10.1038/s41467-021-24147-z |
| 通讯作者 | Wang, Min(wangmin@ivpp.ac.cn) |
| 英文摘要 | The transformation of the bird skull from an ancestral akinetic, heavy, and toothed dinosaurian morphology to a highly derived, lightweight, edentulous, and kinetic skull is an innovation as significant as powered flight and feathers. Our understanding of evolutionary assembly of the modern form and function of avian cranium has been impeded by the rarity of early bird fossils with well-preserved skulls. Here, we describe a new enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous of China that preserves a nearly complete skull including the palatal elements, exposing the components of cranial kinesis. Our three-dimensional reconstruction of the entire enantiornithine skull demonstrates that this bird has an akinetic skull indicated by the unexpected retention of the plesiomorphic dinosaurian palate and diapsid temporal configurations, capped with a derived avialan rostrum and cranial roof, highlighting the highly modular and mosaic evolution of the avialan skull. In addition to major innovations in their locomotor system, early birds evolved highly derived skulls. Here, Wang et al. three dimensionally reconstruct the skull of a new enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous that illustrates the early avialan transitions in skull morphology and function. |
| WOS关键词 | ENANTIORNITHINE AVES ORNITHOTHORACES ; THEROPODA ; INFORMATION ; KINESIS ; MORPHOLOGY ; ANATOMY |
| 资助项目 | Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS[ZDBS-LY-DQC002] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41688103] |
| WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000668766900001 |
| 出版者 | NATURE RESEARCH |
| 资助机构 | Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS ; National Natural Science Foundation of China |
| 源URL | [http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/18270]  |
| 专题 | 古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_图书馆1 |
| 通讯作者 | Wang, Min |
| 作者单位 | 1.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wang, Min,Stidham, Thomas A.,Li, Zhiheng,et al. Cretaceous bird with dinosaur skull sheds light on avian cranial evolution[J]. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,2021,12(1):9. |
| APA | Wang, Min,Stidham, Thomas A.,Li, Zhiheng,Xu, Xing,&Zhou, Zhonghe.(2021).Cretaceous bird with dinosaur skull sheds light on avian cranial evolution.NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,12(1),9. |
| MLA | Wang, Min,et al."Cretaceous bird with dinosaur skull sheds light on avian cranial evolution".NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 12.1(2021):9. |
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来源：古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
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