New toothed Early Cretaceous ornithuromorph bird reveals intraclade diversity in pattern of tooth loss

A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) with completely fused premaxillae from the Early Cretaceous of China

(2019) Min Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

A new Jurassic scansoriopterygid and the loss of membranous wings in theropod dinosaurs

(2019) Min Wang et al.   NATURE

Complete Ichthyornis skull illuminates mosaic assembly of the avian head

(2018) Daniel J. Field et al.   NATURE

The trophic habits of early birds

(2018) Jingmai K. O'Connor   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Convergent evolution of a mobile bony tongue in flighted dinosaurs and pterosaurs

(2018) Zhiheng Li et al.   PLoS One

Reinterpretation of a previously described Jehol bird clarifies early trophic evolution in the Ornithuromorpha

(2018) Xiaoting Zheng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A new clade of basal Early Cretaceous pygostylian birds and developmental plasticity of the avian shoulder girdle

(2018) Min Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Archaeorhynchuspreserving significant soft tissue including probable fossilized lungs

(2018) Xiaoli Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Heterochronic truncation of odontogenesis in theropod dinosaurs provides insight into the macroevolution of avian beaks

(2017) Shuo Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TNT version 1.5, including a full implementation of phylogenetic morphometrics

(2016) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

A Fish-Eating Enantiornithine Bird from the Early Cretaceous of China Provides Evidence of Modern Avian Digestive Features

(2016) Min Wang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A new ornithuromorph (Aves) with an elongate rostrum from the Jehol Biota, and the early evolution of rostralization in birds

(2016) Jingmai K. O'Connor et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

A new basal ornithuromorph bird (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Early Cretaceous of China with implication for morphology of early Ornithuromorpha

(2016) Min Wang et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The Origin and Diversification of Birds

(2015) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A New Species of Pengornithidae (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the Lower Cretaceous of China Suggests a Specialized Scansorial Habitat Previously Unknown in Early Birds

(2015) Han Hu et al.   PLoS One

The oldest record of ornithuromorpha from the early cretaceous of China

(2015) Min Wang et al.   Nature Communications

A new species from an ornithuromorph (Aves: Ornithothoraces) dominated locality of the Jehol Biota

(2014) Shuang Zhou et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

New Specimens of Yanornis Indicate a Piscivorous Diet and Modern Alimentary Canal

(2014) Xiaoting Zheng et al.   PLoS One

Anatomy of the basal ornithuromorph birdArchaeorhynchus spathulafrom the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning, China

(2013) Shuang Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A new piscivorous ornithuromorph from the Jehol Biota

(2013) Shuang Zhou et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

Distribution of the predentary bone in Mesozoic ornithurine birds

(2011) Zhonghe Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

A revision of enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) skull morphology

(2011) Jingmai K. O’Connor et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

From snout to beak: the loss of teeth in birds

(2011) Antoine Louchart et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A new ornithuromorph (Aves: Ornithothoraces) bird from the Jehol Group indicative of higher-level diversity

(2010) Jingmai K. O'Connor et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Herbivorous ecomorphology and specialization patterns in theropod dinosaur evolution

(2010) L. E. Zanno et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A new Lower Cretaceous bird from China and tooth reduction in early avian evolution

(2009) Z. Zhou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Insight into diversity, body size and morphological evolution from the largest Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird

(2008) Zhonghe Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY