- Albert; Jagt, John W. M.; Ksepka,
Daniel T. (March 2020). "Late
Cretaceous neornithine from
Europe illuminates the
origins of
crown birds". Nature. 579 (7799):...
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questioned its
affinities to
Galloanserae and even its
classification as a
neornithine bird.
McLachlan et al. (2017)
considered the
family Vegaviidae to be...
- Albert; Jagt, John W. M.; Ksepka,
Daniel T. (March 2020). "Late
Cretaceous neornithine from
Europe illuminates the
origins of
crown birds". Nature. 579 (7799):...
- holotype. Notably, in 2014,
Gerald Mayr
suggested that
Austinornis is a non-
neornithine from the
Coniacian or
Santonian age and that the
specimen probably belongs...
- Albert; Jagt, John W. M.; Ksepka,
Daniel T. (March 2020). "Late
Cretaceous neornithine from
Europe illuminates the
origins of
crown birds". Nature. 579 (7799):...
-
juvenile of a
modern bird
group or, if an adult, the only
known non-
neornithine bird to have
survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene
extinction event. Unusually...
-
unresolved position.
While other researchers have
recovered Vegavis as a
neornithine, they did not
consider it to be a
member of
Anseriformes or Galloanserae...
- Cretaceous,
caused the
extinction of all
dinosaur groups except for the
neornithine birds. Some
other diapsid groups,
including crocodilians, dyrosaurs,...
- PMID 17284401. Case, J. A. and C. P. Tambussi. 1999.
Maastrichtian record of
neornithine birds in Antarctica:
comments on a Late
Cretaceous radiation Proximal...
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other novelties – a
critical review of the higher-level
phylogeny of
neornithine birds".
Journal of
Zoological Systematics and
Evolutionary Research....
