Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

Our knowledge of Cretaceous plumage is limited by the fossil record itself: compression fossils surrounding skeletons lack the finest morphological details and seldom preserve visible traces of colour, while discoveries in amber have been disassociated from their source animals. Here we report the o...

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Main Authors: Xing, Lida, McKellar, Ryan C., Wang, Min, Bai, Ming, O'Connor, Jingmai K., Benton, Michael J., Zhang, Jianping, Wang, Yan, Tseng, Kuowei, Lockley, Martin G., Li, Gang, Zhang, Weiwei, Xu, Xing
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4931330/