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Reply to Foth: Preserved cartilage is rare but not absent: Troodontid sternal plates are absent, not rare

Jingmai K. O’Connor, Min Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, and Zhonghe Zhou
PNAS December 16, 2014 111 (50) E5335; first published December 5, 2014; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419403111
Jingmai K. O’Connor
aKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China;
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Min Wang
aKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China;
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Xiaoting Zheng
bInstitute of Geology and Paleontology, Linyi University, Linyi, Shandong 276000, China; and
cTianyu Natural History Museum of Shandong, Pingyi, Shandong 273300, China
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Zhonghe Zhou
aKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China;
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  • For correspondence: zhouzhonghe@ivpp.ac.cn

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vol. 111 no. 50 E5335
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419403111
PubMed: 
25480552

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue December 16, 2014.
  • Published first December 5, 2014.


Author Information

  1. Jingmai K. O’Connora,
  2. Min Wanga,
  3. Xiaoting Zhengb,c, and
  4. Zhonghe Zhoua,1
  1. aKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China;
  2. bInstitute of Geology and Paleontology, Linyi University, Linyi, Shandong 276000, China; and
  3. cTianyu Natural History Museum of Shandong, Pingyi, Shandong 273300, China

Footnotes

  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: zhouzhonghe{at}ivpp.ac.cn.
  • Author contributions: J.K.O. designed research; J.K.O. performed research; J.K.O., M.W., X.Z., and Z.Z. analyzed data; and J.K.O. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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