#NewPaper #Paleontology #Paleornithology

Wu, Y., Ge, Y., Hu, H. et al. Intra-gastric phytoliths provide evidence for folivory in basal avialans of the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota. Nat Commun 14, 4558 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40311-z

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Thomas, D., Tennyson, A., Marx, F., & Ksepka, D. (2023). Pliocene fossils support a New Zealand origin for the smallest extant penguins. Journal of Paleontology, 1-11. doi:10.1017/jpa.2023.30

#NewPaper #Paleontology #Dinosaurs #Paleornithology

Min Wang & Zhonghe Zhou (2023)
Low morphological disparity and decelerated rate of limb size evolution close to the origin of birds
Nature Ecology & Evolution (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02091-z
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02091-z

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Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, José P. O’Gorman & Karen M. Panzeri (2023)
A new Cretaceous bird from the Maastrichtian La Colonia Formation (Patagonia, Argentina)
Cretaceous Research 105595
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105595
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667123001234

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Yan Wang, Zhiheng Li, Chun-Chieh Wang, Alida M. Bailleul, Min Wang, Jingmai O'Connor, Jinhua Li, Xiaoting Zheng, Rui Pei, Fangfang Teng, Xiaoli Wang and Zhonghe Zhou (2023)
Comparative microstructural study on the teeth of Mesozoic birds and non-avian dinosaurs
Royal Society Open Science 10(5): 230147
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230147
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230147

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Qiaohui Hu, Case Vincent Miller, Edward P. Snelling & Roger S. Seymour (2023)
Blood flow rates to leg bones of extinct birds indicate high levels of cursorial locomotion
Paleobiology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2023.14
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/blood-flow-rates-to-leg-bones-of-extinct-birds-indicate-high-levels-of-cursorial-locomotion/DC4F386360E91EDB0A8BF7FC5A74E3F6

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Pei-Chen Kuo, Roger B. J. Benson & Daniel J. Field (2023)

The influence of fossils in macroevolutionary analyses of 3D geometric morphometric data: A case study of galloanseran quadrates

Journal of Morphology 284(6): e21594

doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21594

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.21594

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Eric Buffetaut, Delphine Angst & Haiyan Tong (2023)
A new enantiornithine bird from Upper Cretaceous non-marine deposits at Villespassans (Hérault, southern France)
Un nouvel oiseau enantiornithe en provenance des dépôts non-marins du Crétacé supérieur à Villespassans (Hérault, Sud de la France)
Annales de Paléontologie 109(1): 102585
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annpal.2022.102585
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0753396922000519

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Mohr SR, Acorn JH, Currie PJ (2023) Putative avian teeth from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, are more likely from crocodilians. PLoS ONE 18(3): e0283581. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283581

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Alexander D. Clark, Han Hu, Roger BJ Benson & Jingmai K. O’Connor (2023)
Reconstructing the dietary habits and trophic positions of the Longipterygidae (Aves: Enantiornithes) using neontological and comparative morphological methods.
PeerJ 11:e15139
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15139
https://peerj.com/articles/15139/

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Maria Grace P. Burton, Roger B. J. Benson and Daniel J. Field (2023)
Direct quantification of skeletal pneumaticity illuminates ecological drivers of a key avian trait
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290( ): 20230160
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0160
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.0160

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Mather, E.K., Lee, M.S.Y., Camens, A.B. et al. A giant raptor (Aves: Accipitridae) from the Pleistocene of southern Australia. J Ornithol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-023-02055-x

Sororavis solitarius Mayr & Kitchener, reconstruction of a fossil bird from the early Eocene of Great Britain, just having been described.

#FossilBirds, #Bird, #Birds, #Paleontology, #Paleornithology

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Alicia Grealy et al. (2023)
Molecular exploration of fossil eggshell uncovers hidden lineage of giant extinct bird
Nature Communications 14: 914
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36405-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36405-3

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Cayetano Herrero, Emilio Herrero, Javier Martín‑Chivelet & Félix Pérez‑Lorente (2023)
Avian ichnofauna from Sierra de las Cabras tracksite (late Miocene, Jumilla, SE Spain)
Journal of Iberian Geology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41513-023-00205-x
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41513-023-00205-x

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WANG Min (2023)
A new specimen of Parabohaiornis martini (Avialae: Enantiornithes) sheds light on early avian skull evolution
Vertebrata PalAsiatica (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.
http://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.230217

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Case Vincent Miller, Michael Pittman, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng & Jen A. Bright (2023)
Quantitative investigation of pengornithid enantiornithine diet reveals macrocarnivorous ecology evolved in birds by Early Cretaceous
iScience (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106211
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223002882

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Ryan R. Germain, Shaohong Feng, Lucas Buffan and David Nogués-Bravo
Changes in the functional diversity of modern bird species over the last million years
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(7): e2201945119
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2201945119
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201945119

#NewPaper #Paleontology #Paleornithology #FossilBirds

Wang, R., Hu, D., Zhang, M. et al. A new confuciusornithid bird with a secondary epiphyseal ossification reveals phylogenetic changes in confuciusornithid flight mode. Commun Biol 5, 1398 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04316-6

#NewPaper #Paleontology #Paleornithology #FossilBirds #Taphonomy

He Xingjian, Zhao Tao, Hu Jianfang, Li Xin, Wang Xiaoli, Zheng Xiaoting, Pan Yanhong. 2022.
Taphonomic properties of the foot claw sheath from an Early Cretaceous bird specimen Confuciusornis sanctus,
Cretaceous Research: 105453

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105453.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667122003172)