Phorusrhacids: The Terror Birds

Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 187-208

  Alvarenga, Herculano ^a   Chiappe, Luis ^b   Bertelli, Sara ^c  

^a Museu de Historia Natural de Taubate   (Brazil)

^b Los Angeles County   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biogeographical history of Cariamae, unclear from Eocene and Oligocene deposits in North America; Cervical vertebrae, and specimens of Phorusrhacidae osseous bridge from the processus transversus to middle of corpus vertebrae, forming large dorsal fenestrae; Character list and character states for present cladistic analysis; Cladistic analysis rooted using the taxon Anseranas semipalmata; Monophyly of the phorusrhacidae close relationship between Phorusrhacidae and the extant Cariamidae; Phorusrhacids, the Terror Birds phylogenetic analysis of the Phorusrhacidae; Remains of Phorusrhacidae in continental beds of Cenozoic strata in South America, all epochs of the Tertiary; Strict consensus cladogram from 48 most parsimonious trees, the present cladistic analysis; Systematic paleontology, heuristic search conducted using tree bisection reconnection (TBR) algorithm, 1000 replicates in branch swapping cycles with random addition of taxa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867081730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119990475.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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