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SUBMITTER: Qiu R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6483983 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Qiu Rui R Wang Xiaolin X Wang Qiang Q Li Ning N Zhang Jialiang J Ma Yiyun Y
Scientific reports 20190425 1
Caudipteridae is a basal clade of Oviraptorosauria, all known species from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of northeastern China. They were one of the first feathered dinosaur groups discovered, and possessed avian-like pennaceous remiges and rectrices. Their discovery provided significant information on early oviraptorosaurian evolution and the origins of birds and feathers. Here we describe a new caudipterid species Xingtianosaurus ganqi gen. et sp. nov. from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Forma ...[more]