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We describe the nearly complete digital endocasts of the brain and bony labyrinth of the neotype specimen of Lithornis vulturinus, a palaeognathous bird from the early Eocene of Europe. Lithornis may provide the clearest insights to date into the neuroanatomy of the ancestral crown bird, combining an ancestrally unflexed brain with a caudally oriented ...
Klara E. Widrig +2 more
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Patterns of variation in fleshy diaspore size and abundance from Late Triassic–Oligocene
ABSTRACT Vertebrate‐mediated seed dispersal is a common attribute of many living plants, and variation in the size and abundance of fleshy diaspores is influenced by regional climate and by the nature of vertebrate seed dispersers among present‐day floras.
Duhita Naware, Roger Benson
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Piatnitzkysauridae were Jurassic theropods that represented one of the earliest lineages to have evolved moderate body size. Here, we reconstructed the hindlimb musculature of this clade, allowing a more complete understanding of myological evolution in theropod pelvic appendages. Abstract Piatnitzkysauridae were Jurassic theropods that represented the
Mauro B. S. Lacerda +2 more
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Decoupling body shape and mass distribution in birds and their dinosaurian ancestors. [PDF]
Macaulay S +7 more
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Here we describe a new theropod, Bicentenaria argentina nov. gen. et nov. sp., from the early Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. It is represented by more than a hundred bones belonging to different sized individuals, which were buried together in ...
Fernando E Novas +4 more
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The evolution of pelvic limb muscle moment arms in bird-line archosaurs. [PDF]
Allen VR, Kilbourne BM, Hutchinson JR.
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The evolution of nest site use and nest architecture in modern birds and their ancestors. [PDF]
Mainwaring MC +5 more
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Exceptional Preservation of Non-Mineralized Biomaterials in Fossils of the Avialae Clade
Thousands of primitive and diverse fossils birds from Mesozoic and Cenozoic have been discovered around the world. Among these, hundreds of studies have found exceptional preservation of mineralized biomaterials, allowing to expand the knowledge about the ecology and Evolution of birds.
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Deep time diversity and the early radiations of birds. [PDF]
Yu Y, Zhang C, Xu X.
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Bird neurocranial and body mass evolution across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: The avian brain shape left other dinosaurs behind. [PDF]
Torres CR, Norell MA, Clarke JA.
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