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| Zhonghe ZhouSummaryAffiliation: Chinese Academy of Sciences Country: China Publications
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Insight into diversity, body size and morphological evolution from the largest Early Cretaceous enantiornithine birdZhonghe Zhou
Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
J Anat 212:565-77. 2008..As such, it sheds new light on avian body size evolution and diversity, and allows a re-evaluation of a previously proposed hypothesis of competitive exclusion among Early Cretaceous avian clades...
Largest bird from the Early Cretaceous and its implications for the earliest avian ecological diversificationZhonghe Zhou
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Naturwissenschaften 89:34-8. 2002..Electronic supplementary material to this paper can be obtained by using the Springer LINK server located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-001-0276-9...- The origin and early evolution of birds: discoveries, disputes, and perspectives from fossil evidenceZhonghe Zhou
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P O Box 643, 100044 Beijing, China
Naturwissenschaften 91:455-71. 2004..Controversy and debate, nevertheless, surround many of these findings, and more details are needed to give a better appreciation of the significance of these new discoveries... - Discovery of a rare arboreal forest-dwelling flying reptile (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from ChinaXiaolin Wang
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P O Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:1983-7. 2008.... - A new Lower Cretaceous bird from China and tooth reduction in early avian evolutionZhonghe Zhou
Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xi Wai Da Jie, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, People s Republic of China
Proc Biol Sci 277:219-27. 2010.... - A precocial avian embryo from the Lower Cretaceous of ChinaZhonghe Zhou
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Post Office Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Science 306:653. 2004..The presence of well-developed wing and tail feather sheets indicates a precocial developmental mode, supporting the hypothesis that precocial birds appeared before altricial birds... - Jeholornis compared to Archaeopteryx, with a new understanding of the earliest avian evolutionZhonghe Zhou
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, 100044, Beijing, China
Naturwissenschaften 90:220-5. 2003..The presence of a pair of fenestrae in the sternum of Jeholornis has further implications for the air-sac system in early birds... - An exceptionally preserved Lower Cretaceous ecosystemZhonghe Zhou
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 421:807-14. 2003..Detailed soft-tissue preservation of the organisms from the Jehol Biota is providing palaeobiological insights that would not normally be accessible from the fossil record... - A long-tailed, seed-eating bird from the Early Cretaceous of ChinaZhonghe Zhou
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 418:405-9. 2002..The dozens of beautifully preserved ovules of unknown plant taxa in the stomach represents direct evidence for seed-eating adaptation in birds of the Mesozoic era... - Archaeoraptor's better halfZhonghe Zhou
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 420:285. 2002 - Four-winged dinosaurs from ChinaXing Xu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P O Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 421:335-40. 2003..The new discovery conforms to the predictions of early hypotheses that proavians passed through a tetrapteryx stage... - Discovery of an ornithurine bird and its implication for Early Cretaceous avian radiationZhonghe Zhou
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P O Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:18998-9002. 2005..This discovery provides important information not only for studying the origin and early evolution of ornithurines but also for understanding the differentiation in morphology, body size, and diet of the Early Cretaceous birds... 
Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birdsFucheng Zhang
Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 463:1075-8. 2010....- Palaeontology: leg feathers in an Early Cretaceous birdFucheng Zhang
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 431:925. 2004..They may be remnants of earlier long, aerodynamic leg feathers, in keeping with the hypothesis that birds went through a four-winged stage during the evolution of flight... - A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathersFucheng Zhang
Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 455:1105-8. 2008.... - Pterosaur diversity and faunal turnover in Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in ChinaXiaolin Wang
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 437:875-9. 2005.... - Additional specimen of Microraptor provides unique evidence of dinosaurs preying on birdsJingmai O'Connor
Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:19662-5. 2011.... - Gastroliths in Yanornis: an indication of the earliest radical diet-switching and gizzard plasticity in the lineage leading to living birds?Zhonghe Zhou
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, 100044, Beijing, China
Naturwissenschaften 91:571-4. 2004..This discovery indicates the earliest presence of intermittent diet change (and associated gizzard plasticity) observed in extant birds seasonally and in response to changes in available food sources... - Palaeontology: pterosaur embryo from the Early CretaceousXiaolin Wang
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 429:621. 2004..This discovery confirms that pterosaurs were egg-layers and sheds new light on our understanding of pterosaur development... - A juvenile coelurosaurian theropod from China indicates arboreal habitsFucheng Zhang
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Naturwissenschaften 89:394-8. 2002..Electronic Supplementary Material is available if you access this article at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-002-0353-8. On that page (frame on the left side), a link takes you directly to the supplementary material... - Oxygen isotopes of East Asian dinosaurs reveal exceptionally cold Early Cretaceous climatesRomain Amiot
Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xi Zhi Men Wai DaJie, Beijing 100044, China
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:5179-83. 2011.... - Insight into the evolution of avian flight from a new clade of Early Cretaceous ornithurines from China and the morphology of Yixianornis grabauiJulia A Clarke
Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695, USA
J Anat 208:287-308. 2006....