@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref20984,
author = {Darren Naish and Gareth Dyke and Andrea Cau and Fran?ois Escuilli?},
title = {A gigantic bird from the Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia.},
year = {2012},
keywords = {Aves; Kazakhstan; Neornithes; anatomy; phylogeny},
doi = {10.1098/rsbl.2011.0683},
url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21835881},
pmid = {21835881},
journal = {Biology Letters},
volume = {8},
number = {1},
pages = {97--100},
abstract = {We describe an enormous Late Cretaceous fossil bird from Kazakhstan, known from a pair of edentulous mandibular rami (greater than 275 mm long), which adds significantly to our knowledge of Mesozoic avian morphological and ecological diversity. A suite of autapomorphies lead us to recognize the specimen as a new taxon. Phylogenetic analysis resolves this giant bird deep within Aves as a basal member of Ornithuromorpha. This Kazakh fossil demonstrates that large body size evolved at least once outside modern birds (Neornithes) and reveals hitherto unexpected trophic diversity within Cretaceous Aves.}
}
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Citation title:
"A gigantic bird from the Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia.".
Study name:
"A gigantic bird from the Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia.".
This study is part of submission 13008
(Status: Published).
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