Description and ecologic analysis of Hollanda luceria, a Late Cretaceous bird from the Gobi Desert (Mongolia)

Avian fossils from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia provide significant scientific insight into the evolution of early birds, primarily due to the scarcity of continental interiors with a well-documented avifauna in the Cretaceous record. This paper describes in detail the anatomy and histology of a new taxon of early ornithuromorph bird, Hollanda luceria, from the Barun Goyot Formation at Khermeen Tsav in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. The new...