Palæos:		Unit 350: Aves
The Vertebrates		References

Aves: References

THEROPODA
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Aves
|--Archaeornithes
`--Metornithes
   |--Alvarezsauridae
   `--Ornithothoraces
      |--Enantiornithes
      `--Ornithurae
         |--Hesperornithiformes
         `--Neornithes
            |--Paleognathae
            |  |--Lithornithiformes
            |  `--Ratites
            `--+--GALLOANSERAE
               `--GRUIMORPHA           

Beresford, P, FK Barker, PG Ryan & TM Crowe (2005), African endemics span the tree of songbirds (Passeri): molecular systematics of several evolutionary ‘enigmas.’  Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 272: 849-858.  Ratites.  

Bertelli, S & LM Chiappe (2005), Earliest tinamous (Aves: Palaeognathae) from the Miocene of Argentina and their phylogenetic position.  Contrib. Sci. #502, 20 pp.  Ratites.  

Bertelli, S & AL Porzecanski (2004), Tinamou (Tinamidae) systematics: A preliminary combined analysis of morphology and molecules.  Ornit. Neotrop. 15 (supp.), 8pp.  Ratites.  

Chiappe, LM (1995), The first 85 million years of avian evolution.  Nature 378: 349-355.  Aves, Carinatae, Metornithes, Mononykus, Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae.  

Chiappe, LM & CA Walker (2002), Skeletal morphology and systematics of the Cretaceous Euenantiornithes (Ornithothoraces: Enantiornithes), in LM Chiappe & LM Witmer [eds.], Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of the Dinosaurs.  Univ. Calif. Press.  pp. 240-267.  Neornithes.  

Chiappe, LM, MA Norell & JM Clark (1998), The skull of a relative of the stem-group bird Mononykus.  Nature 392: 275-278.  Parvicursor, Shuvuuia.

Chiappe, LM, J Shu'an, J Qiang, & MA Norell (1999), Anatomy and systematics of the Confuciusornithidae (Theropoda: Aves) from the Late Mesozoic of northeastern China. Bul. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 242: 1-89. Confuciusornithidae, Ornithurae.

Clarke, JA & LM Chiappe (2001), A new carinate bird from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina).  Amer. Mus. Nov. 3323, 23 pp.  WWW.  Carinatae

Clarke, JA, CP Tambussi, JI Noriega, GM Erickson & RA Ketcham (2005), Definitive fossil evidence for the extant avian radiation in the Cretaceous.  Nature 433: 305-308.  Neornithes.  

Cooper, A, C Lalueza-Fox, S Anderson, A Rambaut, J Austin & R Ward (2001), Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two extinct moas clarify ratite evolution.  Nature 409: 704-707.  Ratites.  

Cracraft, J (1974), Phylogeny and evolution of the ratite birds. Ibis 116: 494-521.  Ratites.  

Cracraft, J (2001), Avian evolution, Gondwana biogeography and the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction event.  Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 268: 459-469.  Ratites.  

Edwards, SV, B Fertil, A Giron & PJ Deschavanne (2002), A genomic schism in birds revealed by phylogenetic analysis of DNA strings.  Syst. Biol. 51: 599-613.  Ratites.  

Feduccia, A (1999), The Origin and Evolution of Birds (2nd ed.). Yale Univ. Press, 466 pp. Aves, Ornithurae.

Forster, CA, SD Sampson, LM Chiappe & DW Krause (1998), The theropod ancestry of birds: new evidence from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Science 279: 1915-1919 (reprinted WWW). Metornithes, Patagonykus.

Garner, JP, GK Taylor & ALR Thomas (1999), On the origin of birds: the sequence of character acquisition in the evolution of avian flight. Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 266: 1259-1266. Aves

Gee, H. (1999), In Search of Deep Time, Free Press. Aves.  

Haddrath, O & AJ Baker (2004), Complete mitochondrial DNA genome sequences of extinct birds: ratite phylogenetics and the vicariance biogeography hypothesis.  Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B  268: 939-945.   Ratites.

Harrison, GL, PA McLenachan, MJ Phillips, KE Slack, A Cooper & D Penny (2004), Four new avian mitochondrial genomes help get to basic evolutionary questions in the Late Cretaceous.  Mol. Biol. Evol. 21: 974–983.   Ratites.    

Heads, M (2005), Dating nodes on molecular phylogenies: a critique of molecular biogeography.  Cladistics.  21: 62-78.  Ratites.

Hope, S (2002), The Mesozoic radiation of Neornithes, in LM Chiappe & LM Witmer [eds.], Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of the Dinosaurs.  Univ. Calif. Press., pp. 339-388.  Neornithes. 

Hutchinson, JR (2004), Biomechanical modeling and sensitivity analysis of bipedal running ability. I. Extant taxa.  J. Morphol. 262: 421-440.    Neornithes, Ratites.  

Hutchinson, JR & LR Chiappe (1998), The first known alvarezsaurid (Theropoda: Aves) from North America.  J. Vert. Paleontol. 18: 447-450.  Mononykinae, Mononykus, Suvuuia.

Karhu, AA & AS Rautian (1996), A new family of Maniraptora (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia.  Paleontol. J. 30: 583-592. Parvicursor.   

Maryanska, T, H Osmólska & M Wolsan (2002), Avialan status for Oviraptorosauria. Acta Pal. Pol. 47: 97-116. Aves.

Novas, FE (1997), Anatomy of Patagonykus puertai (Theropoda, Avialae, Alvarezsauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia.  J. Vert. Paleontol. 17: 137-166.  Alvarezsauridae, Alvarezsaurus, Mononykus, Patagonykus

Padian, K, JR Hutchinson & TR Holtz, Jr. (1999), Phylogenetic definitions and nomenclature of the major taxonomic categories of the carnivorous Dinosauria (Theropoda). J. Vert. Paleontol. 19: 69-80. Aves Overview, Carinatae, Metornithes, Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae.

Perle, A, MA Norell, LM Chiappe & JM Clark (1993), Flightless bird from the Cretaceous of Mongolia.  Nature 362: 623-626. Metornithes, Mononykus, Ornithothoraces

Phillips, MJ, Y-H Lin, GL Harrison & D Penny (2001), Mitochondrial genomes of a bandicoot and a brushtail possum confirm the monophyly of australidelphian marsupials.  Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 268: 1533-1538.  Ratites

Proctor, NS & PJ Lynch (1993), Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure & Function. Yale Univ. Press, 340 pp. Aves Overview, Ornithurae.  

Rage, J-C (2003), Relationships of the Malagasy fauna during the Late Cretaceous: Northern or southern routes?  Acta Pal. Pol. 48: 661-662.  Ratites.   

Sanmartín, I & F Ronquist (2004), Southern Hemisphere biogeography inferred by event-based models: Plant versus animal patterns.  Syst. Biol. 53:216–243.  Ratites.  

Schweitzer, MH, JA Watt, R Avci, L Knapp, L Chiappe, M Norell & M Marshall (1999), Beta-keratin specific immunological reactivity in feather-like structures of the Cretaceous alvarezsaurid, Shuvuuia deserti.  J. Exper. Zool. 285: 146-157.  Shuvuuia 

Sereno, PC, JA Wilson & JL Conrad (2004), New dinosaurs link southern landmasses in the Mid-Cretaceous.  Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 03PB1064 (on line).  Ratites

Suzuki, S, LM Chiappe, GJ Dyke, M Watabe, R. Barsbold & K Tsogtbaatar (2002), A new specimen of Shuvuuia deserti Chiappe et al., 1998 from the Mongolian Late Cretaceous with a discussion of the relationships of alvarezsaurids to other theropod dinosaurs.  Contrib. Sci. #494, 20 pp.  WWW.  Parvicursor. 

Tsuda Y, C Nishida-Umehara, J Ishijima, K Yamada & Y Matsuda (2007), Comparison of the Z and W sex chromosomal architectures in elegant crested tinamou (Eudromia elegans) and ostrich (Struthio camelus) and the process of sex chromosome differentiation in palaeognathous birds. Chromosoma 116: 159-173. Neornithes.

van Tuinen, M, CG Sibley & SB Hedges (1998), Phylogeny and biogeography of ratite birds inferred from DNA sequences of the mitochondrial ribosomal genes.  Mol. Biol. Evol. 15: 370–376.  Ratites.  

Waddell, PJ, Y Cao, M Hasegawa & DP Mindell (1999), Assessing the Cretaceous superordinal divergence times within birds and placental mammals by using whole mitochondrial protein sequences and an extended statistical framework.  Syst. Biol. 48: 119–137.    Ratites.  

Waters, JM & MS Roy (2004), Out of Africa: The slow train to Australasia.  Syst. Biol. 53: 18-24.  Ratites.  

Zhou, Z-G & F-C Zhang (2001), Two new ornithurine birds from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China.  Chin. Sci. Bull. 48: 1258-1264.  WWW.  Orinithurae.

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