- be
palaeognaths related to ostriches. It is
rather unambiguous that
geranoidids are
either part of or stem
representatives of Gruoidea, the
clade that...
-
theropods (in the form of Gastornis, eogruiids, bathornithids, ratites,
geranoidids, mihirungs, and "terror birds"). It is
often stated that
mammals out-competed...
-
Galligeranoides is an
extinct genus of
geranoidid that
lived during the Ypresian.
Galligeranoides boriensis is
known from the site of La
Borie in France...
- the
terror birds (and
their relatives the bathornithids), eogruids,
geranoidids, gastornithiforms, and
dromornithids (all extinct) all
evolved similar...
- in Eurasia. A
recent study posits a
Laurasian origin for the clade.
Geranoidids,
which may have been ratites,
existed in
North America. The
African ostrich...
- both
groups have
occasionally been
classified as
sister taxa.
Recently geranoidids have been
recovered as
basal to the rest of Gruoidea, however, while...
-
possible geranoidid, may
actually belong to the
genus Paragrus or be
outside Geranoididae entirely. P.
meleagroides Elk Cr****,
Bighorn Basin. A
geranoidid. ...
-
birds such as the
larger Bathornis species and the
flightless crane-like
geranoidids. Joel Cracraft,
Systematics and
evolution of the
Gruiformes (class Aves)...
-
members of
Geranoididae is
published by Mayr (2016), who
argues that
geranoidids might be stem
group representatives of the
Gruoidea (the
clade including...
