Mesozoic birds : above the heads of dinosaurs /

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Autor principal: Chiappe, Luis M.
Otros Autores: Witmer, Lawrence M.
Formato: Desconocido
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002
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  • Part I: The Archosaurian Heritage of Birds
  • 1. The Debate on Avian Ancestry: Phylogeny, Function, and Fossils / Lawrence M. Witmer
  • 2. Cladistic Approaches to the Relationships of Birds to Other Theropod Dinosaurs / James M. Clark, Mark A. Norell and Peter J. Makovicky
  • Part II: Taxa of Controversial Status
  • 3. The Enigmatic Birdlike Dinosaur Avimimus portentosus: Comments and a Pictorial Atlas / Patricia Vickers-Rich, Luis M. Chiappe and Sergei Kurzanov
  • 4. The Cretaceous, Short-Armed Alvarezsauridae: Mononykus and Its Kin / Luis M. Chiappe. Mark A. Norell and James M. Clark
  • 5. Alvarezsaurid Relationships Reconsidered / Fernando E. Novas and Diego Pol
  • Part III: The Mesozoic Aviary: Anatomy and Systematics
  • 6. Archaeopterygidae (Upper Jurassic of Germany) / Andrzej Elzanowski
  • 7. The Discovery and Study of Mesozoic Birds in China / Zhou Zhonghe and Hou Lianhai
  • 8. Sinornis santensis (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the Early Cretaceous of Northeastern China / Paul C. Sereno, Rao Chenggang and Li Jianjun
  • 9. The Birds from the Lower Cretaceous of Las Hoyas (Province of Cuenca, Spain) / José L. Sanz, Bernardino P. Pérez-Moreno, Luis M. Chiappe and Ángela D. Buscalioni
  • 10. Noguerornis gonzalezi (Aves) from the Early Cretaceous of Spain / Luis M. Chiappe and Antonio Lacasa-Ruiz
  • 11. Skeletal Morphology and Systematics of the Cretaceous Euenantiornithes (Ornithothoraces: Enantiornithes) / Luis M. Chiappe and Cyril A. Walker
  • 12. Vorona berivotrensis, a Primitive Bird from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar / Catherine A. Forster, Luis M. Chiappe, David W. Krause and Scott D. Sapson
  • 13. Osteology of the Flightless Patagopteryx deferrariisi from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina) / Luis M. Chiappe
  • 14. Enaliornis, an Early Cretaceous Hesperornithiform Bird from England, with Comments on other Hesperornithiformes / Peter M. Galton and Larry D. Martin
  • 15. The Mesozoic Radiation of Neornithes / Sylvia Hope
  • 16. A Review of Avian Mesozoic Fossil Feathers / Alexander W. A. Kellner
  • 17. The Track Record of Mesozoic Birds and Pterosaurs: An Ichnological and Paleoecological Perspective / Martin G. Lockley and Emma C. Rainforth
  • Part IV: Functional Morphology and Evolution
  • 18. Bone Microstructure of Early Birds / Anusuya Chinsamy
  • 19. Locomotor Evolution on the Line to Modern Birds / Stephen M. Gatesy
  • 20. Basal Bird Phylogeny: Problems and Solutions / Luis M. Chiappe.