| Title |
A new maniraptoran dinosaur from China with long feathers on the metatarsus
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|---|---|
| Published in |
The Science of Nature, February 2005
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00114-004-0604-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Xing Xu, Fucheng Zhang |
| Abstract |
The unusual presence of long pennaceous feathers on the feet of basal dromaeosaurid dinosaurs has recently been presented as strong evidence in support of the arboreal-gliding hypothesis for the origin of bird flight, but it could be a unique feature of dromaeosaurids and thus irrelevant to the theropod-bird transition. Here, we report a new eumaniraptoran theropod from China, with avian affinities, which also has long pennaceous feathers on its feet. This suggests that such morphology might represent a primitive adaptation close to the theropod-bird transition. The long metatarsus feathers are likely primitive for Eumaniraptora and might have played an important role in the origin of avian flight. |
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| United States | 1 | 100% |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 7 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |
| Chile | 2 | 2% |
| Bangladesh | 1 | <1% |
| Hungary | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 99 | 84% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 24 | 20% |
| Researcher | 23 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 21 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 8% |
| Professor | 9 | 8% |
| Other | 21 | 18% |
| Unknown | 10 | 8% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 51 | 43% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 45 | 38% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
| Psychology | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 3% |
| Unknown | 12 | 10% |
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