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- Pygostylia is a group of avialans which includes the Confuciusornithidae and all of the more advanced species, the Ornithothoraces. The group Pygostylia...
- avialans were shortened with the advent of the pygostyle bone in the group Pygostylia. In the late Cretaceous, around 95 million years ago, the ancestor of...
- adapted from these later to improve flight performance. The bird clade Pygostylia was named in 1996, by Luis Chiappe, for the presence of this feature and...
- Birds evolved from certain feathered theropod dinosaurs, and there is no real dividing line between birds and non-avian dinosaurs except that some of the...
- †Sapeornis Pygostylia...
- monophyly of the group, placing them as basal avialans and sister to Pygostylia. No phylogenetic definitions for these groups were provided by Zhou and...
- Chongmingia is a genus of basal avialan belonging to Pygostylia that lived during the Aptian. It was found in the Jiufotang Formation in Chaoyang, China...
- Pygostylia...
- Clade: Dinosauria Clade: Saurischia Clade: Theropoda Clade: Avialae Clade: Pygostylia Clade: Ornithothoraces Chiappe & Calvo, 1994 Subgroups †Enantiornithes...
- Pygostylia...