Quantitative investigation of pengornithid enantiornithine diet reveals macrocarnivorous ecology evolved in birds by Early Cretaceous

Summary: The diet of Mesozoic birds is poorly known, limiting evolutionary understanding of birds’ roles in modern ecosystems. Pengornithidae is one of the best understood families of Mesozoic birds, hypothesized to eat insects or only small amounts of meat. We investigate these hypotheses with four...

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Hlavní autoři: Case Vincent Miller, Michael Pittman, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Jen A. Bright
Médium: Článek
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Elsevier 2023-03-01
Edice:iScience
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On-line přístup:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223002882