Fossil evidence of the avian vocal organ from the Mesozoic

Julia A. Clarke (), Sankar Chatterjee, Zhiheng Li, Tobias Riede, Federico Agnolin, Franz Goller, Marcelo P. Isasi, Daniel R. Martinioni, Francisco J. Mussel and Fernando E. Novas
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Julia A. Clarke: University of Texas at Austin
Sankar Chatterjee: Museum of Texas Tech University
Zhiheng Li: University of Texas at Austin
Tobias Riede: Midwestern University
Federico Agnolin: Conicet — Laboratorio de Anatomía Comparada y Evolución de los Vertebrados, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales
Franz Goller: University of Utah
Marcelo P. Isasi: Conicet — Laboratorio de Anatomía Comparada y Evolución de los Vertebrados, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales
Daniel R. Martinioni: Laboratorio de Geologia Andina, CADIC-Conicet
Francisco J. Mussel: Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Fernando E. Novas: Conicet — Laboratorio de Anatomía Comparada y Evolución de los Vertebrados, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales

Nature, 2016, vol. 538, issue 7626, 502-505

Abstract: Birds make sound in the syrinx, a unique vocal organ situated deep in the chest, but little is known about the evolution of this structure; a fossilized Cretaceous age syrinx from Antarctica is described from a species that might have been capable of making a goose-like honking sound.

Date: 2016
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