Short note on a new anurognathid pterosaur with evidence of perching behaviour from Jianchang of Liaoning Province, China

发布时间:2018年12月21日

J Lü,Q Meng,B Wang,D Liu,C Shen,Y Zhang        

摘要:

We describe a new ornithuromorph bird species, Gansus zheni from the Lower Cretaceous lacustrine deposits of the Jiufotang Formation (Jehol Group), Liaoning Province, China. A cladistic analysis resolves Gansus zheni as the sister taxon of the roughly contemporaneous Gansus yumenensis (Xiagou Formation, Gansu Province), and together as the most immediate outgroup to Ornithurae. Gansus zheni is...

DOI:10.1144/SP455.16

Geological Society London Special Publications  2017