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Pennaceous feathers are also known as contour feathers and are present in most modern birds and in some species of maniraptora
Maniraptora

Maniraptora is a clade of coelurosaurian dinosaurs which includes the birds and the dinosaurs that were more closely related to them than to Ornithomimus velox....
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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
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Pennaceous feathers have a central shaft (or rachis) with vanes branching off to either side. These vanes are also called Barbs, that are connected to one another with Barbules, tiny strands that criss-cross to form a kind of mesh that holds all the barbs together and with each other.






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Pennaceous feathers are also known as contour feathers and are present in most modern birds and in some species of maniraptora
Maniraptora

Maniraptora is a clade of coelurosaurian dinosaurs which includes the birds and the dinosaurs that were more closely related to them than to Ornithomimus velox....
n dinosaur
Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
s.

Pennaceous feathers have a central shaft (or rachis) with vanes branching off to either side. These vanes are also called Barbs, that are connected to one another with Barbules, tiny strands that criss-cross to form a kind of mesh that holds all the barbs together and with each other. Remiges and rectrices are specialized types of pennaceous feathers.