Paleogene Fossil Birds

Author : Gerald Mayr
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540896287
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paleogene Fossil Birds written by Gerald Mayr and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the present book the Paleogene fossil record of birds is detailed for the first time on a worldwide scale. I have developed the idea for such a project for several years, and think that it is an appropriate moment to present a summary of our c- rent knowledge of the early evolution of modern birds. Meanwhile not only is there a confusing diversity of fossil taxa, but also significant progress has been made concerning an understanding of the higher-level phylogeny of extant birds. Hypotheses which were not considered even a decade ago are now well supported by independent analyses of different data. In several cases these group together morphologically very different avian groups and allow a better understanding of the mosaic character distribution found in Paleogene fossil birds. The book aims at bringing some of this information together, and many of the following data are based on first-hand examination of fossil specimens.

Author : Gerald Mayr
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111902076X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Avian Evolution written by Gerald Mayr and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the avian fossil record and its paleobiological significance, and it is the only up-to-date textbook that covers both Mesozoic and more modern-type Cenozoic birds in some detail. The reader is introduced to key features of basal avians and the morphological transformations that have occurred in the evolution towards modern birds. An account of the Cenozoic fossil record sheds light on the biogeographic history of the extant avian groups and discusses fossils in the context of current phylogenetic hypotheses. This review of the evolutionary history of birds not only addresses students and established researchers, but it may also be a useful source of information for anyone else with an interest in the evolution of birds and a moderate background in biology and geology.

Author : Storrs L. Olson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore written by Storrs L. Olson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Wilson Shufeldt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fossil Birds in the Marsh Collection of Yale University written by Robert Wilson Shufeldt and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dr. Gareth Dyke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119990459
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Dinosaurs written by Dr. Gareth Dyke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Dinosaurs offers a snapshot of our current understanding of the origin and evolution of birds. After slumbering for more than a century, avian palaeontology has been awakened by startling new discoveries on almost every continent. Controversies about whether dinosaurs had real feathers or whether birds were related to dinosaurs have been swept away and replaced by new and more difficult questions: How old is the avian lineage? How did birds learn to fly? Which birds survived the great extinction that ended the Mesozoic Era and how did the avian genome evolve? Answers to these questions may help us understand how the different kinds of living birds are related to one another and how they evolved into their current niches. More importantly, they may help us understand what we need to do to help them survive the dramatic impacts of human activity on the planet.

Author : Alan Feduccia
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300078619
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin and Evolution of Birds written by Alan Feduccia and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of all that is known about the origin of birds and of avian flight. It draws on fossil evidence and studies of the structure and biochemistry of living birds to present knowledge and data on avian evolution and to propose a new model of this evolutionary process.

Author : William Elgin Swinton
Publisher : London : British Museum (Natural History)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fossil Birds written by William Elgin Swinton and published by London : British Museum (Natural History). This book was released on 1975 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter W. Houde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paleognathous Birds from the Early Tertiary of the Northern Hemisphere written by Peter W. Houde and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. Tab Rasmussen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fossil Birds from the Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation, Fayum Province, Egypt written by D. Tab Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fossils from fluvial deposits of early Oligocene age in Egypt document the earliest known diverse avifauna from Africa, comprising at least 13 families and 18 species. Included are the oldest fossil records of the Musophagidae (turacos), Pandionidae (ospreys), Jacanidae (jacanas), and Balaenicipitidae (shoebilled storks). Other families represented are the Accipitridae (hawks and eagles), Rallidae (rails), Gruidae (cranes), Phoenicopteridae (flamingos), Ardeidae (herons), Ciconiidae (storks), and Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants). A highly distinctive rostrum is described as a new family, Xenerodiopidae, probably most closely related to herons. A humerus lacking the distal end is tentatively referred to the same family. Two new genera and three species of large to very large jacanas are described from the distal ends of tarsometatarsi. This Oligocene avifauna resembles that of modern tropical African assemblages. The habitat preferences of the constituent species of birds indicate a tropical, swampy, vegetation-choked, fresh-water environment at the time of deposition.

Author : Alexander Wetmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Check-list of the Fossil Birds of North America written by Alexander Wetmore and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: