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within a species.: 50 In the case of
Confuciusornis, only C.
sanctus is
universally accepted.
Confuciusornis chuonzhous was
named by Hou in 1997 based...
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pheomelanosomes preserved in a
specimen of
Confuciusornis, (IVPP V13171). This
suggested that
Confuciusornis had hues of grey, red/brown and black. This...
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sometimes 2–4
central "streamers" such as
those found in some
specimens of
Confuciusornis or in Paraprotopteryx. By contrast, the
function of the
pygostyle in...
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clade Avialae. In this sense,
protobirds would include animals like
Confuciusornis, Sapeornis, and the Enantiornithes.
These animals were small, flying...
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Confuciusornithidae was
first named by Hou et al. in 1995 to
contain the type genus,
Confuciusornis, and ****igned to the
monotypic clade Confuciusornithiformes within the...
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paper in
which they
analysed the
rachises of the
primary feathers of
Confuciusornis and Archaeopteryx. The
analysis suggested that the
rachises on these...
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Changchengornis might indicate a diet
different from that of
Confuciusornis. However, of
Confuciusornis itself it is
contested whether it were a fish eater, an...
- non-crown
group primitive birds like Archaeopteryx,
Hesperornis and
Confuciusornis, therefore, pan-group
birds would include all
dinosaurs and pterosaurs...
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Confuciusornis sanctus, a
Cretaceous bird from
China that
lived 125 million
years ago, is the
oldest known bird to have a beak....
- "Life
history of a
basal bird:
morphometrics of the
Early Cretaceous Confuciusornis".
Biology Letters. 4 (6): 719–723. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2008.0409. PMC 2614169...
