New Specimens of Yanornis Indicate a Piscivorous Diet and Modern Alimentary Canal

A crop adapted for an herbivorous diet of seeds has previously been documented in the Early Cretaceous birds Sapeornis and Hongshanornis. Here we report on several specimens of Yanornis that preserve a crop containing fish. One specimen preserves two whole fish in the oesophagus, indicating that Ear...

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Main Authors: Zheng, Xiaoting, O'Connor, Jingmai K., Huchzermeyer, Fritz, Wang, Xiaoli, Wang, Yan, Zhang, Xiaomei, Zhou, Zhonghe
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Public Library of Science 2014
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3986254/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24733485
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095036
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