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SUBMITTER: Imai T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6856171 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Imai Takuya T Azuma Yoichi Y Kawabe Soichiro S Shibata Masateru M Miyata Kazunori K Wang Min M Zhou Zhonghe Z
Communications biology 20191114
The Early Cretaceous basal birds were known largely from just two-dimensionally preserved specimens from north-eastern China (Jehol Biota), which has hindered our understanding of the early evolution of birds. Here, we present a three-dimensionally-preserved skeleton (FPDM-V-9769) of a basal bird from the Early Cretaceous of Fukui, central Japan. Unique features in the pygostyle and humerus allow the assignment of FPDM-V-9769 to a new taxon, <i>Fukuipteryx prima</i>. FPDM-V-9769 exhibits a set o ...[more]