Ashley Poust, a paleontologist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is part of an international team that has identified a previously unknown species of feathered dinosaur.
The new species, Jian changmaensis, is described in a study published in the Annals of Carnegie Museum. The fossil, discovered in China’s Changma Basin, represents a member of Microraptorinae, a group of small, feathered dinosaurs closely related to the evolutionary lineage that led to modern birds.
Illustration by Lewis LaRosa | Colorized by Jão Canol
An artist’s reconstruction shows Jian changmaensis (left), a newly identified species of feathered dinosaur described by an international research team that included University of Nebraska–Lincoln paleontologist Ashley Poust, attacking the early bird Gansus yumenensis about 120 million years ago in what is now northwestern China’s Changma Basin…