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Anchiornis is a
genus of small, four-winged
paravian dinosaurs, with only one
known species, the type
species Anchiornis huxleyi,
named for its similarity...
- Xiaotingia,
Anchiornis, and Aurornis.
Compared to Archaeopteryx,
Xiaotingia was
found to be more
closely related to
extant birds,
while both
Anchiornis and Aurornis...
- A 2017
study describing new
specimens of
Anchiornis found Eosinopteryx only
distinguishable from
Anchiornis in the
length of the tail, but the tail of...
- feathers. In 2010,
paleontologists studied a well-preserved
skeleton of
Anchiornis, an
averaptoran from the
Tiaojishan Formation in China, and
found melanosomes...
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specimens of the
avialan Anchiornis has
found that the
traits exhibited by
Aurornis fall
within the
range of
variation in
Anchiornis,
warranting their synonymization...
- Dromaeosauridae. The
clade containing avialans, microraptorians, unenlagiids,
Anchiornis, and
Xiaotingia to the
exclusion of
Eudromaeosauria was
named Averaptora...
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million years ago. The
avialan species from this time
period include Anchiornis huxleyi and
Aurornis xui.
Xiaotingia zhengi used to be
considered a member...
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intraspecific variation with
respect to
Anchiornis. Thus, some
researchers suggested the
synonymization of
Serikornis with
Anchiornis. A
phylogenetic analysis by...
- birds, the
color and
pattern of the
feathers on
Anchiornis and
Tupandactylus could be determined.
Anchiornis was
found to have black-and-white-patterned feathers...
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include Scansoriopteryx, Epidexipteryx, Microraptor, Pedopenna, and
Anchiornis.
Anchiornis is
particularly important to this subject, as it
lived at the beginning...
