New cranial material of the earliest filter feeding flamingo Harrisonavis croizeti (Aves, Phoenicopteridae) informs the evolution of the highly specialized filter feeding apparatus

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 609-618

  Torres, Chris R ^a,b   De Pietri, Vanesa L ^c   Louchart, Antoine ^d   van Tuinen, Marcel ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bill morphology; Computed tomography; Ecology; Fossil birds; Miocene; Saint G rand le Puy

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CRANIUM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION; FILTER FEEDING; FOSSIL RECORD; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; OLIGOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOGENE; SPECIALIZATION; TAXONOMY; TOMOGRAPHY; VERTEBRATE;

FRANCE;

AVES; PHOENICOPTERIDAE; PHOENICOPTERIFORMES; PHOENICOPTERUS;

EID: 84940894051     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: 16181077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13127-015-0209-7     Document Type: Article

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