Additional specimen of Microraptor provides unique evidence of dinosaurs preying on birds
文献类型：期刊论文
| 作者 | O'Connor, Jingmai; Zhou, Zhonghe ; Xu, Xing; jingmai@usc.edu; zhouzhonghe@ivpp.ac.cn
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| 刊名 | PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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| 出版日期 | 2011-12-06 |
| 卷号 | 108期号:49页码:19662-19665 |
| ISSN号 | 0027-8424 |
| 关键词 | Flight Paleoecology |
| 文献子类 | Article |
| 英文摘要 | Preserved indicators of diet are extremely rare in the fossil record; even more so is unequivocal direct evidence for predator-prey relationships. Here, we report on a unique specimen of the small nonavian theropod Microraptor gui from the Early Cretaceous Jehol biota, China, which has the remains of an adult enantiornithine bird preserved in its abdomen, most likely not scavenged, but captured and consumed by the dinosaur. We provide direct evidence for the dietary preferences of Microraptor and a nonavian dinosaur feeding on a bird. Further, because Jehol enantiornithines were distinctly arboreal, in contrast to their cursorial ornithurine counterparts, this fossil suggests that Microraptor hunted in trees thereby supporting inferences that this taxon was also an arborealist, and provides further support for the arboreality of basal dromaeosaurids. |
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| WOS关键词 | EARLY CRETACEOUS BIRD ; AVES ENANTIORNITHES ; THEROPOD DINOSAUR ; AVIAN FLIGHT ; CHINA ; EVOLUTION ; SELECTION ; SPAIN ; SIZE ; GUI |
| WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000297683800050 |
| 公开日期 | 2013-11-27 |
| 源URL | [http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4362]  |
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| 通讯作者 | jingmai@usc.edu; zhouzhonghe@ivpp.ac.cn |
| 作者单位 | Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | O'Connor, Jingmai,Zhou, Zhonghe,Xu, Xing,et al. Additional specimen of Microraptor provides unique evidence of dinosaurs preying on birds[J]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,2011,108(49):19662-19665. |
| APA | O'Connor, Jingmai,Zhou, Zhonghe,Xu, Xing,jingmai@usc.edu,&zhouzhonghe@ivpp.ac.cn.(2011).Additional specimen of Microraptor provides unique evidence of dinosaurs preying on birds.PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,108(49),19662-19665. |
| MLA | O'Connor, Jingmai,et al."Additional specimen of Microraptor provides unique evidence of dinosaurs preying on birds".PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 108.49(2011):19662-19665. |
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