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diverged prior to the end of the Mesozoic (Clarke and Chiappe 2001; Chiappe and Dyke 2002). However, this inference provides lit ...

analyses based on morphological characters and synopses of phylogenetic relationships within basal Neornithes (e.g. Bledsoe 1988 ...

Palaeognaths At the base of Neornithes (Cracraft and Clarke 2001; Figure 12.2), the Palaeognathae include the flightless ratites ...

currently represented by several partially complete (but extensively crushed) specimens from the Middle Eocene of Germany. Lambr ...

The position of Palaeotis weigelti within the ratites is supported by this analysis on the basis of the following derived charac ...

(Figure 12.5), including Presbyornis, because of the presence of a prominent crista fossa parabasalis of the exoccipitale (chara ...

(e.g. Unwin 1993; Hope 2002). However, the majority of this material is incompletely preserved and so one of the oldest certain ...

recovered clades are well supported on the basis of osteological evidence, such as the New and Old World quail (Perdicini) and t ...

explosive evolutionary radiation of Neornithes in the aftermath of the K-T boundary extinction is still a strong possibility. As ...

Bledsoe, A.H. (1988) ‘A phylogenetic analysis of postcranial skeletal characters of ratite birds’, Annals of the Carnegie Museum ...

Ericson, P.G.P. (1997) Systematic relationships of the Paleogene family Presbyornithidae (Aves: Anseriformes), Zoological Journa ...

Milne-Edwards, A. (1867–1871) Recherches Anatomiques et Paléontologiques pour Servir a I’Histoire des Oiseaux Fossiles de la Fra ...

Appendix 12.1 Dataset including representative fossils of Palaeognathae (Lithornis and Palaeotis); ‘?’ denotes ‘missing characte ...

Systematics Association Publications Bibliography of key works for the identification of the British fauna and flora, 3rd editi ...

Key works to the fauna and flora of the British Isles and northwestern Europe, 4th edition (1978)*Edited by G.J.Kerrich, D.L.Ha ...

Coevolution and systematics (1986)‡Edited by A.R.Stone and D.L.Hawksworth Key works to the fauna and flora of the British Isles ...

The ecology of agricultural pests: biochemical approaches (1996)**Edited by W.O.C.Symondson and J.E.Liddell Species: the units ...

Index acanthodians 103 Acanthostega 228 accelerated transformations (ACCTRAN) 145, 146, 147–9, 150 Aceraceae 157 acraniates 206– ...

divergence 210 fossil and molecular evidence 69–71 ghost ranges 103 Neornithes radiations 263–78 oldest fossils 73 phylogenetic ...

fossil record completeness 69–71 congruence metrics 80–2 conodonts 99, 103, 201, 203, 204, 208 constant-rates model 68 convergen ...