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    Bird (redirect from Neornithes)
    Neornithes into the Holarctic and Paleotropics. On the other hand, the occurrence of Asteriornis in the Northern Hemisphere suggest that Neornithes dispersed...
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    of a species and all its extant or extinct descendants. For example, Neornithes (birds) can be defined as a crown group, which includes the most recent...
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    Neornithes was originally proposed as a replacement for Ornithurae by Gadow in 1892 and 1893. Gauthier and de Queiroz, therefore, consider Neornithes...
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    within the late Cretaceous, alongside the other dinosaurs. Much of the Neornithes' fossil record around the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event is made...
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    Asteriornis is one of the oldest-known birds irrefutably belonging to the group Neornithes, which encompasses all modern birds. It possesses characteristics of both...
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    infraclasses of birds, the other being Neognathae, both of which form Neornithes. Palaeognathae contains five extant orders consisting of four flightless...
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    Neoaves is a clade that consists of all modern birds (Neornithes or Aves) with the exception of Palaeognathae (ratites and kin) and Galloanserae (ducks...
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    Subclass Ichthyornithes (toothed, but otherwise modern birds) Subclass Neornithes (all living birds) Class Mammalia (mammals) Subclass Prototheria (Monotremata...
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    several ways and extents throughout bird evolution. Specifically, in Neornithes (modern birds), although the bones are joined along their entire length...
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    domesticus), and either Archaeopteryx, or some prehistoric species closer to Neornithes (to avoid the problems caused by the unclear relationships of Archaeopteryx...
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    early pennaraptoran dinosaurs suggests annual molt evolved later among Neornithes". Communications Biology. 6 (1): 687. doi:10.1038/s42003-023-05048-x....
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  • Archaeornithes, extinct primitive flying bird-like dinosaurs, e.g. Archaeopteryx Neornithes, modern birds which are the only surviving dinosaurs Scansoriopterygidae...
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    L. (2007). "Higher-order phylogeny of modern birds (Theropoda, Aves: Neornithes) based on comparative anatomy. II. Analysis and discussion". The Science...
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    the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of Triceratops and modern birds (Neornithes), and all its descendants. It has also been suggested that Dinosauria...
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    or phoenicopteriform Neornithes incerta sedis Kurochkin 1995 (Nemegt Late Cretaceous of S Mongolia) - phalacrocoracid? Neornithes incerta sedis AMNH FR...
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    (February 2022). "The Evolution and Fossil Record of Palaeognathous Birds (Neornithes: Palaeognathae)". Diversity. 14 (2): 105. doi:10.3390/d14020105. ISSN 1424-2818...
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    living birds and all of its descendants (a "crown group"). (alternatively Neornithes) Under the fourth definition Archaeopteryx is an avialan, and not a member...
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    unite water- and landfowl. Many of these, however, are plesiomorphic for Neornithes as a whole, and are also shared with paleognaths.[citation needed] Galloanserae...
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    China. This time also saw the evolution of the first members of the Neornithes (modern birds). Sinodelphys, a 125 Ma-old boreosphenidan mammal found...
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  • L. (2007). "Higher-order phylogeny of modern birds (Theropoda, Aves: Neornithes) based on comparative anatomy: II. – Analysis and discussion". Zoological...
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    Neornithes...
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  • (February 2022). "The Evolution and Fossil Record of Palaeognathous Birds (Neornithes: Palaeognathae)". Diversity. 14 (2): 105. doi:10.3390/d14020105. ISSN 1424-2818...
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    Tuinen, Marcel (June 2004). "The evolutionary radiation of modern birds (Neornithes): Reconciling molecules, morphology and the fossil record". Zoological...
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    diversifying in a variety of enantiornithe and ornithurine forms. Early Neornithes such as Vegavis co-existed with forms as bizarre as Yungavolucris and...
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    Sinornithosaurus millenii + V. mongoliensis) Avialae (Archaeopteryx + Neornithes) (Iguanodon/Triceratops > Cetiosaurus/Tyrannosaurus) ? Lesothosaurus diagnosticus...
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    focused on clarification of the evolutionary history of modern birds (Neornithes), focusing, in particular, on the identification of conserved morphological...
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    Field et al. (2020) considered Vegavis to be either a sister taxon to the Neornithes outside the crown group birds, or as a taxon at the base of Neognathae...
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    Mindell. D. P. (2004) "Phylogenetic relationships among modern birds (Neornithes): Toward an avian tree of life." p468–489 in Assembling the tree of life...
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    Mindell, David P. (2004). "Phylogenetic relationships among modern birds (Neornithes): toward an avian tree of life". In Cracraft J, Donoghue MJ (eds.). Assembling...
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    Cracraft, J. et al. 2004. "Phylogenetic relationships among modern birds (Neornithes): toward an avian tree of life". pp. 468–489 in Assembling the Tree of...
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