Avian evolution : the fossil record of birds and its paleobiological significance / Gerald Mayr, Senckenberg Research Institute Frankfurt, Ornithological Section, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
"Knowledge of the evolutionary history of birds has much improved in recent decades. Fossils from critical time periods are being described at unprecedented rates and modern phylogenetic analyses have provided a framework for the interrelationships of the extant groups. This book gives an overv...
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Chichester, West Sussex :
Wiley Blackwell,
2017.
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| Series: | Topics in paleobiology.
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Table of Contents:
- An Introduction to Birds, the Geological Settings of Their Evolution, and the Avian Skeleton
- The Origin of Birds
- The Mesozoic Flight Way towards Modern Birds
- Mesozoic Birds: Interrelationships and Character Evolution
- The Interrelationships and Origin of Crown Group Birds (Neornithes)
- Palaeognathous Birds (Ostriches, Tinamous, and Allies)
- Galloanseres: "Fowl" and Kin
- The "Difficult-to-Place Groups" : Biogeographic Surprises and Aerial Specialists
- Shorebirds, Cranes, and Relatives
- Aequornithes: Aquatic and Semi-Aquatic Carnivores
- Cariamiforms and Diurnal Birds of Prey
- The Cenozoic Radiation of Small Arboreal Birds
- Insular Avifaunas Now and Then, on Various Scales.