A Jurassic avialan dinosaur from China resolves the early phylogenetic history of birds

Citation

Godefroit, P.; Cau, A.; Hu, D. Y.; Escuillié, F.; Wu, W.; Dyke, G. (2013). A Jurassic avialan dinosaur from China resolves the early phylogenetic history of birds. Nature 498(7454): 359-362. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/nature12168

Names first published here

• Aurornis genus
• Aurornis xui species

Cited by genera

• Aurornis

  Erects the genus and species and recovers it as the basal-most avialan, more basal than Archaeopteryx.

Cited by clades

• Eumaniraptora

  Regarded Epidendrosaurus and Epidexipteryx, both scansoriopterygids, and Eosinopteryx as basal non-eumaniraptoran paravians.