Caudipteryx zoui Ji, Currie, Norell and Ji 1998
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Description
Caudipteryx zoui Ji, Currie, Norell and Ji, 1998
Age. Barremian.
Occurrence. Jiulongsong Member of the Chaomidianzi Formation, Liaoning, China.
Diagnosis. Elongate, hooked premaxillary teeth; teeth only present in the premaxilla.
Remarks. Caudipteryx is one of the most important theropod dinosaurs to be described recently (Ji et al. 1998). It is especially noteworthy for the preserved feathers along its arms and at the tip of the tail, since the animal clearly represents a non-avian theropod. Together with the filaments in Sinosauropteryx, Beipiaosaurus, and Sinornithosaurus, and the feathers in Protarchaeopteryx, Caudipteryx provides clear evidence for the presence of feathers in non-avian coelurosaurs and thus greatly strengthens the arguments for the theropod origin of birds.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.3382576 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/8B0B4451FFC7B431FFF59E70FFF0FFFF (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/77323C29FFDBB42CFED5961FFCF1FE81 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Caudipterygidae
- Genus
- Caudipteryx
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Dinosauria
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ji, Currie, Norell and Ji
- Species
- zoui
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Caudipteryx zoui Ji, 1998 sec. Rauhut, 2003
References
- ------ currie, p. J., NORELL, M. a. and Ji, S. - A. 1998. Two feathered dinosaurs from northeastern China. Nature, 393, 753 - 761.