The Pseudo-toothed Birds (Aves, Odontopterygiformes) and their Bearing on the Early Evolution of Modern Birds

Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 209-234

  Bourdon, Estelle ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa, pseudo toothed birds described from middle Eocene strata of Nigeria; Comparison of Dasornis from the Lower Paleogene of Morocco and Pelagornis Osteodontornis from Miocene of North America; False toothed birds, part of large clade birds adapted to aquatic life; Odontopterygiformes and early Neornithine evolution; Odontopterygiformes, abundantly represented in the New World; Pseudo toothed birds (Aves, Odontopterygiformes) their bearing on the early evolution of modern birds; Pseudo toothed birds or false toothed birds (Odontopterygiformes, Pelagornithidae) extinct group of large seabirds with a huge bill bearing spiny osseous processes along the tomia; Similarities between Galliformes and Palaeognathae reinterpreted, as being derived within modern birds; Synapomorphies of the clades Odontoanserae and Galliformes Palaeognathae; Taxonomists, using morphology relationship between gallinaceous birds and paleognathous birds, the tinamous

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EID: 80051566497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119990475.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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