The University Chicago Press, 1990. — 232 p. Owls, Caves and Fossils is the first comprehensive, fully illustrated account of small mammal taphonomy. The study of small mammal remains has previously been neglected in favor of such large mammals as elephants, bovids, and carnivores, partly because the processes by which small mammals become fossils arc so poorly understood and...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — 304 p. When fossils of birds from China’s Jehol region first appeared in scientific circles, the world took notice. These Mesozoic masterpieces are between 120 and 131 million years old and reveal incredible details that capture the diversity of ancient bird life. Paleontologists all over the world began to collaborate with Chinese...
Smithsonian Contributions To Paleobiology. Number 89. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, D.C. 1999. 9 p. In the early evolution of birds, bill formation produced a problem for muscular control of the thin, elongated upper jaw. In particular, it required a relatively high retracting force. Three sources of this force evolved. (1) A powerful M. retractor palatini...
Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016. — 309 p. — ISBN13: 9781119020721. Knowledge of the evolutionary history of birds has much improved in recent decades. Fossils from critical time periods are being described at unprecedented rates and modern phylogenetic analyses have provided a framework for the interrelationships of the extant groups. This book gives an overview of...
Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. — 113 p. — ISBN: 978-94-007-5466-9. Modern birds ( Neornithes ) are represented by two big lineages, the Palaeognathae ( Tinamiformes + Ratitae ) and the Neognathae [ Galloanserae + Neoaves ( Metaves + Coronoaves )]. Both clades sum approximately 10,000 species of which 60% are Passeriformes (the most diverse clade of terrestrial...
Franklin Watts, 1995. — 65 p. — ISBN13: 978-0531112328. How do we find out about the origins of a group of animals, when the origins usually lie far in the past? This fascinating and appealingly written book looks at how scientists have searched for clues about the beginnings of birds, and are now building a body of evidence suggesting that birds descended from — and, in fact,...
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