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Based on serial material from the Turonian of Dzharakuduk (central Kyzyl Kum, Uzbekistan), the morphology of coracoid of enantiornithines is described in detail. Variants of each morphological element are considered; this allows determination of the taxonomic position of enantiornithines even using small coracoid fragments.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Panteleev, 2018, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2018, No. 2, pp. 92–98.
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Panteleev, A.V. Morphology of the Coracoid of Late Cretaceous Enantiornithines (Aves: Enantiornithes) from Dzharakuduk (Uzbekistan). Paleontol. J. 52, 201–207 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030118020089
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