A new 150-million-year-old avialan theropod, Fujianvenator prodigiosus, has been discovered in China, offering fresh insights into early bird evolution and the Late Jurassic terrestrial ecosystem. Birds descended from theropod dinosaurs by the Late Jurassic, but our understanding of the earliest
A new 150-million-year-old avialan theropod,, has been discovered in China, offering fresh insights into early bird evolution and the LateBirds descended from theropod dinosaurs by the Late Jurassic, but our understanding of the earliest evolution of the Avialae, the clade comprising all modern birds but notAs of now, no definitive avialans have been reported except the Middle–Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota in northeast China and the slightly younger German Solnhofen Limestones, which preserve.
A joint research team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and the Fujian Institute of Geological Survey described and analyzed a new 150-million-year-old avialan theropod from Zhenghe County, Fujian Province.
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