Plumage Color Patterns of an Extinct Dinosaur-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Plumage Color Patterns of an Extinct Dinosaur

Published:2010-03-12 Issue:5971 Volume:327 Page:1369-1372
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Li Quanguo¹,Gao Ke-Qin²,Vinther Jakob³⁴,Shawkey Matthew D.⁵,Clarke Julia A.⁶,D’Alba Liliana⁵,Meng Qingjin¹,Briggs Derek E. G.³⁴,Prum Richard O.⁴⁷

Affiliation:

1. Beijing Museum of Natural History, 126 Tianqiao South Street, Beijing 100050, People’s Republic of China.

2. School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China.

3. Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.

4. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.

5. Department of Biology and Integrated Bioscience Program, University of Akron, Akron OH 44325-3908, USA.

6. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX 78712, USA.

7. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.

Abstract

Dinosaur Plumage Coloration and appearance provide important behavioral and evolutionary information in animals. However, for the most part, we do not know the coloration of fossil terrestrial animals. Li et al. (p. 1369 , published online 4 February) have reconstructed the appearance of a theropod dinosaur by mapping features of its well-preserved feathers and comparing them with modern samples from birds. Feather color is partly determined by melanosome density and shape, and this information is preserved in a recently discovered fossil from China. The dinosaur was gray with white limbs and had a reddish crest and a speckled face.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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