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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6828
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-3-30
pubmed:abstractText
The Archaeoraptor fossil was announced as a 'missing link' and purported to be possibly the best evidence since Archaeopteryx that birds did, in fact, evolve from certain types of carnivorous dinosaur. It reportedly came from Early Cretaceous beds of China that have produced other spectacular fossils transitional between birds and extinct non-avian dinosaurs. But Archaeoraptor was revealed to be a forgery in which bones of a primitive bird and a non-flying dromaeosaurid dinosaur had been combined. Here we use high-resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) to determine the nature and extent of the forgery, as well as how it was built, by imaging the fracture pattern and distribution of materials through the entire specimen.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
29
pubmed:volume
410
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
539-40
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Forensic palaeontology: The Archaeoraptor forgery.
pubmed:affiliation
High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility, Department of Geological Sciences, C1100, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA. rowe@mail.utexas.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article