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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Navalon G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4594305 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20151006
Despite a wealth of fossils of Mesozoic birds revealing evidence of plumage and other soft-tissue structures, the epidermal and dermal anatomy of their wing's patagia remain largely unknown. We describe a distal forelimb of an enantiornithine bird from the Lower Cretaceous limestones of Las Hoyas, Spain, which reveals the overall morphology of the integument of the wing and other connective structures associated with the insertion of flight feathers. The integumentary anatomy, and myological and ...[more]