Vegaviidae, a new clade of southern diving birds that survived the K/T boundary

The fossil record of Late Cretaceous–Paleogene modern birds in the Southern Hemisphere includes the Maastrichtian Neogaeornis wetzeli from Chile, Polarornis gregorii and Vegavis iaai from Antarctica, and Australornis lovei from the Paleogene of New Zealand. The recent finding of a new and nearly com...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Die Naturwissenschaften 2017-10, Vol.104 (11-12), p.87-9, Article 87
Hauptverfasser:	Agnolín, Federico L., Egli, Federico Brissón, Chatterjee, Sankar, Marsà, Jordi Alexis Garcia, Novas, Fernando E.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adaptation Animals Anseriformes Antarctic Regions Biological Evolution Biomedical and Life Sciences Birds Birds - anatomy & histology Birds - classification Bone and Bones - anatomy & histology Bones Bowing Chile Compression Compressive strength Continents Cretaceous Diving Environment Extinction, Biological Femur Fossils Life Sciences Lower Extremity - anatomy & histology Mass extinctions Mesozoic New Zealand Original Paper Paleogene Phylogeny Recognition Southern Hemisphere Species extinction Taxa Tibiotarsus
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