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Bookmark or Share- Two-Tailed Ancient Bird Uncovered - National GeographicOne of the oldest known birds, Jeholornis, lived in what is today China, along with a trove of other feathered dinosaurs discovered in the region over the last decade. It was also thought to...
- Jeholornis - WikipediaJeholornis (meaning "Jehol bird") is a genus of avialan dinosaurs that lived between approximately 122 and 120 million years ago during the early Cretaceous Period in China. Fossil Jeholornis were first discovered in the Jiufotang Formation in Hebei Province , China (in what was previously Rehe Province , also known as Jehol—hence the name ...
- Cranial osteology and palaeobiology of the Early Cretaceous bird24 October 2022. Article history. PDF. Split View. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. Jeholornis is a representative of the earliest-diverging bird lineages, providing important evidence of anatomical transitions involved in bird origins.
- A long-tailed, seed-eating bird from the Early Cretaceous of ChinaJeholornis is a large bird, represented by a partially articulated skull and nearly complete postcranial bones ( Fig. 1 ). The holotype comprises five slabs. Their associations are unambiguously...
- Fossil bird’s skull reconstruction reveals a brain made for smelling ...October 24, 2022 Science. Fossil bird’s skull reconstruction reveals a brain made for smelling and eyes made for daylight. Image courtesy of Han Hu et al. Jeholornis was a raven-sized bird that lived 120 million years ago, among the earliest examples of dinosaurs evolving into birds, in what’s now China.
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