- the
apparent close relationship between gastornithids and waterfowl, some
researchers classify gastornithids within the
anseriform group itself. Others...
-
paleontologists also have
support in
placing mihirungs (Dromornithidae) and
Gastornithids into this group, as they too also
share anatomical features in the skull...
- In the
earlier part of the Cenozoic, the
world was
dominated by the
gastornithid birds,
terrestrial crocodiles like Pristichampsus,
large sharks such...
-
Beginning in the late 1980s and the
first phylogenetic analysis of
gastornithid relationships,
consensus began to grow that they were
close relatives...
- a
large pangalliform with a
specialized high bill
convergent with
Gastornithids and Dromornithids.
Hawaiian lobelioids Cyanea spp.
Hawaii Spines or...
- America). This is also the
period when
megafaunal flightless herbivorous gastornithid birds evolved in the
Northern Hemisphere,
while flightless paleognaths...
- like the albatross-like
pseudotooth birds and the
giant flightless gastornithids and
mihirungs have been
found to be stem-anseriforms
based on common...
-
remains of the m****ive
Dasornis were
mistaken for a
ratite and
later a
gastornithid. They were even used to
argue for a
close relationship between these...
- to Megapodiidae, and were most
closely related to the
extinct giant gastornithids. Worthy, T., Mitri, M., Handley, W., Lee, M., Anderson, A., Sand, C...
-
peaceful plant-eaters:
Changing interpretations of the
palaeobiology of
gastornithid birds".
Revue de Paleobiologie. 32 (2).
Museum d'Histoire
Naturelle de...
