Confuciusornis

Possibly the most famous Mesozoic avialan after Archaeopteryx (and more safely embedded within Avialae), I finally got around to giving Confuciusornis the skeletal reconstruction treatment. This is based mostly on an unpublished specimen I got to photograph and measure in China most of a decade ago, supplemented by the Chiappe et al., monograph. The specimen I examined did not have proximally fused metacarpals - I'm not sure if that's individual variation, ontogenetic, etc., but I left it as-is.

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