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Earliest short-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic of China.

Runsheng Chen, Min Wang, Liping Dong, Guowu Zhou, Xing Xu, Ke Deng, Liming Xu, Chi Zhang, Linchang Wang, Honggang Du and 3 more

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Runsheng Chen *Fujian Institute of Geological Survey, Fuzhou, China.
Min Wang *Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. wangmin@ivpp.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-8506-1213
Liping DongKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9152-0359
Guowu ZhouFujian Institute of Geological Survey, Fuzhou, China.
Xing XuKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4786-9948
Ke DengFujian Institute of Geological Survey, Fuzhou, China.
Liming XuFujian Institute of Geological Survey, Fuzhou, China.
Chi ZhangKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6009-5273
Linchang WangFujian Institute of Geological Survey, Fuzhou, China.
Honggang DuFujian Institute of Geological Survey, Fuzhou, China.
Ganmin LinFujian Institute of Geological Survey, Fuzhou, China.
Min LinFujian Institute of Geological Survey, Fuzhou, China.
Zhonghe ZhouKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Funding

Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CASNational Natural Science Foundation of China
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent macroevolutionary studies predict a diversification of early birds during the Jurassic period

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Biological EvolutionBirdsFossilsAnimalsChinaDinosaursPhylogenyWings, Animal

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PMID39939791

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