Neornithes


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Neornithes

the group containing all birds with the exception of Archaeopteryx.
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The extinct species, of which two fossils were discovered in China's northeastern Hebei province about two years ago, was the earliest known member of the Ornithuromorpha branch that also gave us Neornithes, or modern birds.
Early bird winds back the avian clock
2002): The Mesozoic record of Neornithes (modern birds).
Una nueva Calyptocephalellidae (Anura, Neobatrachia) del Cretacico Superior de la Patagonia, Argentina, con comentarios sobre su posicion sistematica
edu/ tree/eukaryotes/animals/ chordata/dinosauria/aves/ neornithes.
Fossil feud
Key words: Cretaceous, Argentina, Patagonia, coracoid, Neornithes, Cimolopterygidae.
RESUMEN: En el presente articulo, se describe el nuevo genero y especie de ave Neornithes Lamarqueavis australis.
Palabras clave: Cretacico, Argentina, Patagonia, coracoides, Neornithes, Cimolopterygidae.
2007), stem ornithurines (CLARKE & CHIAPPE, 2001; AGNOLIN & MARTINELLI, 2009), and Neornithes or neornithine-like birds (OLsoN, 1992; CHIAPPE, 1996; HOPE, 2002; AGNOLIN & MARTINELLI, 2009).
Before the end of the Cretaceous, Neornithes become abundant, and were the only group (or nearly so) that survived in the Tertiary with little changes (HOPE, 2002; see MAYR, 2005).
The aim of the present paper is to report isolated bones belonging to the clade of Neornithes or "modern birds" collected in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina.
In fact this genus could be included within Neornithes on the basis of the following apomorphic feature: humeral articular surface not extended sternally beyond the omal margin of the scapular cotyla (see figure 3).
An avian coracoid from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina/Un coracoides de ave del Cretacico Superior de Patagonia, Argentina
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