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SGER: Morphological Study of a Key Avian Fossil from Antarctica: New Data from X-Ray Computed Tomography and Histology

Entry ID: OPP0408308

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Summary

Abstract: First definitive fossil evidence for part of the extant avian radiation in the
Cretaceous

A longstanding controversy surrounds whether living bird lineages emerged after
the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs at the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T)
boundary or whether these lineages coexisted with non-avian dinosaurs and
passed through this mass extinction event. ...

Science Keywords

PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > MACROFOSSILS

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

Data Center

Department of Marine Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University

Data Center URL: http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/
Dataset ID: Vegavis

Data Center Personnel
Name: JULIA ALLISON CLARKE Phone: 919 515.7648 Fax: 919 515.7802 Email: Julia_clarke at ncsu.edu Contact Address: Campus Box 8208 City: Raleigh Province or State: NC Postal Code: 27695-8208 Country: USA