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SUBMITTER: Voeten DFAE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5849612 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Voeten Dennis F A E DFAE Cubo Jorge J de Margerie Emmanuel E Röper Martin M Beyrand Vincent V Bureš Stanislav S Tafforeau Paul P Sanchez Sophie S
Nature communications 20180313 1
Archaeopteryx is an iconic fossil taxon with feathered wings from the Late Jurassic of Germany that occupies a crucial position for understanding the early evolution of avian flight. After over 150 years of study, its mosaic anatomy unifying characters of both non-flying dinosaurs and flying birds has remained challenging to interpret in a locomotory context. Here, we compare new data from three Archaeopteryx specimens obtained through phase-contrast synchrotron microtomography to a representati ...[more]