- 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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somewhat resembling the super-precocial megapodes, the only
group of
neornithines in
which neonates are
similarly born
fledged and
capable of
flight (Zhou...
-
somewhat resembling the super-precocial megapodes, the only
group of
neornithines in
which neonates are
similarly born
fledged and
capable of
flight (Zhou...
- Albert; Jagt, John W. M.; Ksepka,
Daniel T. (March 2020). "Late
Cretaceous neornithine from
Europe illuminates the
origins of
crown birds". Nature. 579 (7799):...
- and "terror birds"). It is
often stated that
mammals out-competed the
neornithines for
dominance of most
terrestrial niches but many of
these groups co-existed...
- 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...
-
degree of
convergent evolution and the bone is
missing indis****ble
neornithine features, it is not
entirely certain that the bone is
correctly referred...
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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...
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rather than
Cretaceous period, as the time of
basal divergences between neornithines, he
follows Olson.
Houde demonstrated that the Lithornithiformes, a group...
