- extensively,
niche partitioning between geranoidids and
ratites has
currently not, in
spite of
factors like
geranoidids being most
common in
North America...
- 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...
-
theropods (in the form of Gastornis, eogruiids, bathornithids, ratites,
geranoidids, mihirungs, and "terror birds"). It is
often stated that
mammals out-competed...
- both
groups have
occasionally been
classified as
sister taxa.
Recently geranoidids have been
recovered as
basal to the rest of Gruoidea, however, while...
-
birds such as the
larger Bathornis species and the
flightless crane-like
geranoidids. Joel Cracraft,
Systematics and
evolution of the
Gruiformes (class Aves)...
-
possible geranoidid, may
actually belong to the
genus Paragrus or be
outside Geranoididae entirely. P.
meleagroides Elk Cr****,
Bighorn Basin. A
geranoidid. ...
-
members of
Geranoididae is
published by Mayr (2016), who
argues that
geranoidids might be stem
group representatives of the
Gruoidea (the
clade including...
