New data on the Vegavis iaai holotype from the Maastrichtian of Antarctica

• Published in: Cretaceous Research
• Main Authors: Acosta Hospitaleche, Carolina Ileana Alicia, Worthy, Trevor H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academic Press Ltd - Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: ANTARCTICA; CRETACEOUS; ANSERIFORMES; AVES; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Acosta; Alicia; Argentina; Flinders; Fossa; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/152922

Vegavis iaai has key importance as the most complete of the few neornithine birds known from the Cretaceous, yet its phylogenetic relationships remain controversial. To seek new data to resolve this problem, we fully extracted the skeleton of the holotype MLP 93-I-3-1 from the sedimentary matrix it...