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    such as Ichthyornis and Hesperornithes. The genus Gansus contains a single species, G. yumenensis, which was about the size of a pigeon and similar in...
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    monotypic family by Hou & Liu in their 1984 description of their new genus Gansus from the Xiagou Formation. Their characterization for this clade included...
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    Shuilingornis was smaller than other members of the Gansuidae, 70% the size of Gansus, and 88% the size of Changzuiornis. Bone histology of the preserved ulna...
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  • published in the journal Science in June 2006, was the discovery of Gansus yumenensis, a missing link in the early evolution of birds. Lamanna's CV at Carnegie...
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  • Xiagou Formation (category Paleontology in Gansu)
    the site of a Lagerstätte in which the fossils were preserved of Gansus yumenensis, the earliest true modern bird. The laminated yellowish mudstones...
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    erected to mark their distinctness from other early Ornithurae such as Gansus, but might be called Songlingornithiformes; especially if the present taxon...
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    skeletons of the Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) aquatic bird Gansus yumenensis. Gansus filled an important gap in bird evolution, and the team published...
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    the site of a lagerstätte in which the fossils were preserved of Gansus yumenensis, the earliest true modern bird. Paja Formation 130-113 Ma Colombia...
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  • morphology of the scutellate and interstitial scales of a specimen of Gansus yumenensis from the Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation (China) is published by...
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  • Iteravis huchzermeyeri and Gansus zheni, and consider these species to be synonymous. A study on the bone histology of Gansus yumenensis, and on its implications...
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