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Paleontology

hypothesis that birds descend from small theropod dinosaurs, based on shared skeletal features with Archaeopteryx.

In paleontology, dinosaurian origin of birds refers to hypothesis that birds descend from small theropod dinosaurs, based on shared skeletal features with Archaeopteryx. This meaning comes from Ostrom (1976) in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.[1]

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  1. Ostrom, J. H. (1976). Archaeopteryx and the origin of birds. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 8(2), 91-182. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1976.tb00244.x

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