Definitive fossil evidence for the extant avian radiation in the Cretaceous

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7023, 2005, Pages 305-308

  Clarke, Julia A ^a,b   Tambussi, Claudia P ^c   Noriega, Jorge I ^c   Erickson, Gregory M ^d,e,f   Ketcham, Richard A ^g  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b N Carolina Mus of Natural Sciences   (United States)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^f FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; DATA REDUCTION; ECOSYSTEMS; HISTOLOGY;

DINOSAUR EXTINCTION; LIVING BIRD LINEAGES; RATITE BIRD RELATIVES; TRUE DUCKS;

ECOLOGY;

AVIFAUNA; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; PHYLOGENETICS; SKELETON;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CHICKEN; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; DUCK; FOSSIL; FOWL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHICKENS; DINOSAURS; DUCKS; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; PALAEOGNATHAE; PHYLOGENY; SKELETON; TIME FACTORS;

ANAS; ANAS SP.; ANATIDAE; ANSERIFORMES; AVES; DINOSAURIA; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; PALAEOGNATHAE;

EID: 12744280741     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03150     Document Type: Article

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