TY - JOUR
T1 - Cranial anatomy and relationships of a new Triassic bird from Texas
AU - Chatterjee, S.
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - The oldest known fossil bird from the Dockum formation of Texas, provides insights into the anatomy, evolution and phylogenetic relationships of early birds. In life, this adult bird was about the size of a pheasant (Phasianus) counting its long bony tail. Many characters of the skull show that the Texas species is more closely related to other birds than to any known group of archosaurs. Numerical cladistic analysis of 30 cranial characters generated a hypothesis of the phylogenetic pattern of early avian evolution. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that theropods shared a common ancestry with birds, but it is indeterminate from the fossil record whether or not the immediate common ancestor itself was a theropod. -from Author
AB - The oldest known fossil bird from the Dockum formation of Texas, provides insights into the anatomy, evolution and phylogenetic relationships of early birds. In life, this adult bird was about the size of a pheasant (Phasianus) counting its long bony tail. Many characters of the skull show that the Texas species is more closely related to other birds than to any known group of archosaurs. Numerical cladistic analysis of 30 cranial characters generated a hypothesis of the phylogenetic pattern of early avian evolution. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that theropods shared a common ancestry with birds, but it is indeterminate from the fossil record whether or not the immediate common ancestor itself was a theropod. -from Author
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U2 - 10.1098/rstb.1991.0056
DO - 10.1098/rstb.1991.0056
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0026305435
VL - 332
SP - 277
EP - 342
JO - Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
JF - Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
SN - 0962-8436
IS - 1265
ER -