Oryctos
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Accès privé :
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Eric Buffetaut, First evidence of enantiornithine birds from the Upper Cretaceous of Europe : postcranial bones from Cruzy (Hérault, southern France). Oryctos 1, 127-130.
A coracoid and an incomplete femur from a newly discovered Late Campanian to Early Maastrichtian locality at Cruzy (Hérault, France) are described and identified as the first remains of enantiornithine birds to be reported from the Upper Cretaceous of Europe. This find extends to Europe the already wide known geographical distribution of Late Cretaceous Enantiornithes, and confirms the important part played by this peculiar group of birds in avifaunas in many parts of the world until late in the Cretaceous.
Keywords : Aves, Enantiornithes, Late Cretaceous, France.
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