Theropod Diversity and the Refinement of Avian Characteristics

Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 9-29

  Makovicky, Peter J ^a   Zanno, Lindsay E ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeopteryx, and discovery of first specimens evidence of avian evolution in fossil record, focal point for research; Birds within the Saurischia, or "lizard hipped" branch of dinosaur diversity than the Ornithischia, the "bird hipped" branch; Birds, representing the most speciose widespread clade of amniotes, unique locomotory and physiological adaptations; Cladistic methodology, establishing testing proposing evolutionary relationships, conceptual framework for deciphering origin and evolutionary history of birds; Deep evolutionary history of modern birds; Dinosaurian heritage of birds, that birds are archosaurs closest living relatives to crocodilians; Evolutionary trend toward increased brain sizes continuing within avian lineage, modern birds with larger encephalization quotient (EQ) values than nonavian theropods; Huxley (1868), evolutionary relationships between birds and nonavian theropods, shared traits, as three principal weight bearing toes in the foot; Theropod diversity and refinement of avian characteristics; Theropods, exclusive of basal coelophysoid radiation the Late Triassic Early Jurassic, into two major lineages, Ceratosauria and Tetanurae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859968291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119990475.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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