-
Maastrichtian of
Romania suggests that the
enigmatic Gargantuavis is
neither an
ornithurine bird nor an
insular endemic"" (PDF).
Cretaceous Research. 112 (104465)...
- into the
evolution of
avian flight from a new
clade of
Early Cretaceous ornithurines from
China and the
morphology of
Yixianornis grabaui".
Journal of Anatomy...
- was
questioned by
other authors, and it is
claimed that it was a
basal ornithurine, at an
evolutionary level similar to that of Hesperornithies, but the...
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Coniacian or
Santonian age and that the
specimen probably belongs to the
ornithurine Apatornis or Iaceornis. Clarke, J.A. (2004). "Morphology, phylogenetic...
- into the
evolution of
avian flight from a new
clade of
Early Cretaceous ornithurines from
China and the
morphology of
Yixianornis grabaui".
Journal of Anatomy...
-
increasingly common and
diversified into a
variety of
enantiornithe and
ornithurine forms.
Though mostly small,
marine hesperornithes became relatively large...
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juvenile modern birds, and in
adults of more primitive, non-neornithean
ornithurine birds, all of
which were ****umed to have
become extinct in the Cretaceous–Paleogene...
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increasingly common,
diversifying in a
variety of
enantiornithe and
ornithurine forms.
Early Neornithes such as
Vegavis co-existed with
forms as bizarre...
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California Press. pp. 339–388. ISBN 978-0520200944. Longrich, N. 2009. An
ornithurine-dominated
avifauna from the
Belly River Group (Campanian,
Upper Cretaceous)...
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melanosomes preserved in the
feathers of a
specimen of the
Early Cretaceous ornithurine Iteravis to
determine that they were
likely black in colour. A single...
