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Epidexipteryx
''Epidexipteryx'' is a genus of small paravian dinosaurs, known from one fossil specimen in the collection of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing. ''Epidexipteryx'' represents the earliest known example of ornamental feathers in the fossil record. Discovery The type specimen is catalog number IVPP V 15471. The specific name, ''Epidexipteryx hui'' ("Hu's display feather"), and its Chinese name ''Hushi Yaolong'' ("Hu Yaoming's dragon") were coined in memory of paleomammologist Hu Yaoming. Due to a pre-publication error,Dr. Thomas Holtz, Jr. "The mistaken scansoripterygid". Message to the Dinosaur Mailing List (October 1, 2008) a manuscript of the ''Epidexipteryx hui'' description first appeared on a preprint Web portal in late September 2008. The paper was officially published in the October 23, 2008 issue of the journal ''Nature''. Description ''E. hui'' is known from a well-preserved partial skeleton that includes four long feathers o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epidexipteryx Replica In Japan
''Epidexipteryx'' is a genus of small paravian dinosaurs, known from one fossil specimen in the collection of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing. ''Epidexipteryx'' represents the earliest known example of ornamental feathers in the fossil record. Discovery The type specimen is catalog number IVPP V 15471. The specific name, ''Epidexipteryx hui'' ("Hu's display feather"), and its Chinese name ''Hushi Yaolong'' ("Hu Yaoming's dragon") were coined in memory of paleomammologist Hu Yaoming. Due to a pre-publication error,Dr. Thomas Holtz, Jr. "The mistaken scansoripterygid". Message to the Dinosaur Mailing List (October 1, 2008) a manuscript of the ''Epidexipteryx hui'' description first appeared on a preprint Web portal in late September 2008. The paper was officially published in the October 23, 2008 issue of the journal ''Nature''. Description ''E. hui'' is known from a well-preserved partial skeleton that includes four long feathers o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epidexipteryx
''Epidexipteryx'' is a genus of small paravian dinosaurs, known from one fossil specimen in the collection of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing. ''Epidexipteryx'' represents the earliest known example of ornamental feathers in the fossil record. Discovery The type specimen is catalog number IVPP V 15471. The specific name, ''Epidexipteryx hui'' ("Hu's display feather"), and its Chinese name ''Hushi Yaolong'' ("Hu Yaoming's dragon") were coined in memory of paleomammologist Hu Yaoming. Due to a pre-publication error,Dr. Thomas Holtz, Jr. "The mistaken scansoripterygid". Message to the Dinosaur Mailing List (October 1, 2008) a manuscript of the ''Epidexipteryx hui'' description first appeared on a preprint Web portal in late September 2008. The paper was officially published in the October 23, 2008 issue of the journal ''Nature''. Description ''E. hui'' is known from a well-preserved partial skeleton that includes four long feathers o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epidexipteryx NT
''Epidexipteryx'' is a genus of small paravian dinosaurs, known from one fossil specimen in the collection of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing. ''Epidexipteryx'' represents the earliest known example of ornamental feathers in the fossil record. Discovery The type specimen is catalog number IVPP V 15471. The specific name, ''Epidexipteryx hui'' ("Hu's display feather"), and its Chinese name ''Hushi Yaolong'' ("Hu Yaoming's dragon") were coined in memory of paleomammologist Hu Yaoming. Due to a pre-publication error,Dr. Thomas Holtz, Jr. "The mistaken scansoripterygid". Message to the Dinosaur Mailing List (October 1, 2008) a manuscript of the ''Epidexipteryx hui'' description first appeared on a preprint Web portal in late September 2008. The paper was officially published in the October 23, 2008 issue of the journal ''Nature''. Description ''E. hui'' is known from a well-preserved partial skeleton that includes four long feathers o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epidexipteryx Hui
''Epidexipteryx'' is a genus of small paravian dinosaurs, known from one fossil specimen in the collection of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing. ''Epidexipteryx'' represents the earliest known example of ornamental feathers in the fossil record. Discovery The type specimen is catalog number IVPP V 15471. The specific name, ''Epidexipteryx hui'' ("Hu's display feather"), and its Chinese name ''Hushi Yaolong'' ("Hu Yaoming's dragon") were coined in memory of paleomammologist Hu Yaoming. Due to a pre-publication error,Dr. Thomas Holtz, Jr. "The mistaken scansoripterygid". Message to the Dinosaur Mailing List (October 1, 2008) a manuscript of the ''Epidexipteryx hui'' description first appeared on a preprint Web portal in late September 2008. The paper was officially published in the October 23, 2008 issue of the journal ''Nature''. Description ''E. hui'' is known from a well-preserved partial skeleton that includes four long feathers o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scansoriopterygidae
Scansoriopterygidae (meaning "climbing wings") is an extinct family of climbing and gliding maniraptoran dinosaurs. Scansoriopterygids are known from five well-preserved fossils, representing four species, unearthed in the Tiaojishan Formation fossil beds (dating to the mid-late Jurassic Period) of Liaoning and Hebei, China. '' Scansoriopteryx heilmanni'' (and its likely synonym ''Epidendrosaurus ninchengensis'') was the first non-avian dinosaur found that had clear adaptations to an arboreal or semi-arboreal lifestyle–it is likely that they spent much of their time in trees. Both specimens showed features indicating they were juveniles, which made it difficult to determine their exact relationship to other non-avian dinosaurs and birds. It was not until the description of '' Epidexipteryx hui'' in 2008 that an adult specimen was known. In 2015, the discovery of another, larger adult specimen belonging to the species '' Yi qi'' showed that scansoriopterygids were not onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 In Paleontology
Protozoa New taxa Plants Angiosperms Monocots Arthropoda Arachnids Insects Xiphosurans Fishes Bony fish Placoderms General research *Hilton & Grande redescribe the fossil mooneyes of western North America synonymizing the genus ''Eohiodon'' with ''Hiodon''. *Cicimurri, Paris, & Everhart describe a partial dentition from a Holocephali chimaeroid fish found in the Niobrara Chalk. Amphibians Jenkins, F. A., jr, Shubin, N. H., Gatesy, S. M., and Warren, A., 2008, Gerrothorax pulcherrimus from the Upper Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland and a reassessment of head lifting in temnospondyl feeding: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 28, n. 4, p. 935-950. Newly named amphibians Archosaurs Newly named pseudosuchians Newly named pterosaurs Dinosaurs * Oviraptorosaurian eggs with embryonic skeletons are discovered for the first time in China. * Mongolian Late Jurassic theropod fossils are found for the first time. * A new study on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraves
Paraves are a widespread group of theropod dinosaurs that originated in the Middle Jurassic period. In addition to the extinct dromaeosaurids, troodontids, anchiornithids, and possibly the scansoriopterygids, the group also contains the avialans, among which are the over ten thousand species of living birds. Early members of Paraves are well known for the possession of an enlarged claw on the second digit of the foot, which was held off the ground when walking in some species. Description Like other theropods, all paravians are bipedal, walking on their two hind legs. The teeth of primitive paravians were curved and serrated, but not blade-like except in some specialized species such as ''Dromaeosaurus albertensis''. The serrations on the front edge of dromaeosaurid and troodontid teeth were very small and fine, while the back edge had serrations which were very large and hooked. Most of the earliest paravian groups were carnivorous, though some smaller species (especially a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avialae
Avialae ("bird wings") is a clade containing the only living dinosaurs, the birds. It is usually defined as all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds (Aves) than to deinonychosaurs, though alternative definitions are occasionally used (see below). ''Archaeopteryx lithographica'', from the late Jurassic Period Solnhofen Formation of Germany, is possibly the earliest known avialan which may have had the capability of powered flight, though it might have been a deinonychosaur instead. Several older (but non flight-capable) avialans are known from the late Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of China, dated to about 160 million years ago. Definition Most researchers define Avialae as branch-based clade, though definitions vary. Many authors have used a definition similar to "all theropods closer to birds than to ''Deinonychus''."Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (eds.) (2004). ''The Dinosauria'', Second Edition. University of California Press., 861 pp. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ischium
The ischium () forms the lower and back region of the (''os coxae''). Situated below the ilium and behind the pubis, it is one of three regions whose fusion creates the . The superior portion of this region forms approximately one-third of the acetabulum. |
Pygostyle
Pygostyle describes a skeletal condition in which the final few caudal vertebrae are fused into a single ossification, supporting the tail feathers and musculature. In modern birds, the rectrices attach to these. The pygostyle is the main component of the uropygium, a structure colloquially known as the bishop's nose, parson's nose, pope's nose, or sultan's nose. This is the fleshy protuberance visible at the posterior end of a bird (most commonly a chicken or turkey) that has been dressed for cooking. It has a swollen appearance because it also contains the uropygial gland that produces preen oil. Evolution Pygostyles probably began to evolve very early in the Cretaceous period, perhaps 140 – 130 million years ago. The earliest known species to have evolved a pygostyle were members of the Confuciusornithidae. The structure provided an evolutionary advantage, as a completely mobile tail as found in species such as '' Archaeopteryx'' is detrimental to its use for flight contro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callovian
In the geologic timescale, the Callovian is an age and stage in the Middle Jurassic, lasting between 166.1 ± 4.0 Ma (million years ago) and 163.5 ± 4.0 Ma. It is the last stage of the Middle Jurassic, following the Bathonian and preceding the Oxfordian. Stratigraphic definitions The Callovian Stage was first described by French palaeontologist Alcide d'Orbigny in 1852. Its name derives from the latinized name for Kellaways Bridge, a small hamlet 3 km north-east of Chippenham, Wiltshire, England. The base of the Callovian is defined as the place in the stratigraphic column where the ammonite genus ''Kepplerites'' first appears, which is the base of the biozone of '' Macrocephalites herveyi''. A global reference profile (a GSSP) for the base had in 2009 not yet been assigned. The top of the Callovian (the base of the Oxfordian) is at the first appearance of ammonite species '' Brightia thuouxensis''. Subdivision The Callovian is often subdivided into three substages ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polytomy
An internal node of a phylogenetic tree is described as a polytomy or multifurcation if (i) it is in a rooted tree and is linked to three or more child subtrees or (ii) it is in an unrooted tree and is attached to four or more branches. A tree that contains any multifurcations can be described as a multifurcating tree. Soft polytomies vs. hard polytomies Two types of polytomies are recognised, soft and hard polytomies. Soft polytomies are the result of insufficient phylogenetic information: though the lineages diverged at different times – meaning that some of these lineages are closer relatives than others, and the available data does not allow recognition of this. Most polytomies are soft, meaning that they would be resolved into a typical tree of dichotomies if better data were available. In contrast, a hard polytomy represents a true divergence event of three or more lineages. Applications Interpretations for a polytomy depend on the individuals, that are represe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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