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WE report the discovery of two exquisitely preserved specimens of a new, very primitive bird from the Late Cretaceous period of Madagascar. The new taxon, Vorona berivotrensis, is provisionally placed phylogenetically in an unresolved trichotomy with Enantiornithes and a clade consisting of Patagopteryx and Ornithurae. These specimens are the first known pre-Holocene birds from Madagascar and the first avian skeletal remains from the Mesozoic era of a large portion of Gondwana.
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Forster, C., Chiappe, L., Krause, D. et al. The first Cretaceous bird from Madagascar. Nature 382, 532–534 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/382532a0
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