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Scientific Correspondence

Nature 389, 556 (9 October 1997) | doi:10.1038/39228

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Archaeopteryx -like skull in Enantiornithine bird

Larry D. Martin1 & Zhonghe Zhou2

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The bird Cathayornis from the Early Cretaceous period gives the first evidence for a post-Jurassic survival of an Archaeopteryx -like skull in birds. This skull combines short, toothed premaxillaries, nasals meeting at the midline and submaxillary fossae in the antorbital fenestra.