Theropod-bird link reconsidered

Alan Feduccia and Larry D. Martin
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Alan Feduccia: University of North Carolina
Larry D. Martin: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas

Nature, 1998, vol. 391, issue 6669, 754-754

Abstract: Abstract Norell et al.1 describe a Velociraptor ‘wishbone’ which they interpret as a new piece of evidence for the theropod origin of birds. The bone fits a pattern of furcula-like structures that have been discovered in certain late Cretaceous theropods, including Oviraptor, Ingenia and possibly others2, some of which possess clavicles — usually not fused. But this interpretation gives rise to problems of chronology, structure and function.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/35777

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