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A new long‐tailed basal bird from the Lower Cretaceous of north‐eastern C hina

Author(s) -

Lefèvre Ulysse,

Hu Dongyu,

Escuillié François,

Dyke Gareth,

Godefroit Pascal

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

biological journal of the linnean society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.906

H-Index - 112

eISSN - 1095-8312

pISSN - 0024-4066

DOI - 10.1111/bij.12343

Subject(s) - biology , paraphyly , yixian formation , cursorial , cretaceous , sister group , china , zoology , phylogenetic tree , taxon , ecology , clade , paleontology , mesozoic , archaeology , geography , biochemistry , structural basin , gene , predation

A new basal A vialae, Jeholornis curvipes sp. nov. , from the Y ixian F ormation (Lower Cretaceous) of L iaoning P rovince (north‐eastern C hina) is described. A revision of long‐tailed birds from C hina and a phylogenetic analysis of basal A vialae suggest that J eholornithiformes were paraphyletic, with J ixiangornis orientalis being the sister‐taxon of pygostylia. The phylogenetic analysis also recovered that the tail reduction is a unique event in the evolution of birds. J eholornis species were cursorial, nonperching, and seed‐eating birds. © 2014 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 2014, 113 , 790–804.

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