Mesozoic birds : above the heads of dinosaurs / edited by Luis M. Chiappe and Lawrence W. Witmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chiappe, Luis M.

Witmer, Lawrence M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birds, Fossil.

Paleontology--Mesozoic.

Paleontology.

Birds--Evolution.

Birds.

Physical Description:

xii, 520 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]

Summary:

An edited collection on the origin and early evolution of birds, with chapters by experts from all over the world.

Contents:

The debate on avian ancestry: phylogeny, function, and fossils / Lawrence M. Witmer

Cladistic approaches to the relationships of birds to other theropod dinosaurs / James M. Clark, Mark A. Norell and Peter J. Makovicky

The enigmatic birdlike dinosaur Avimimus portentosus: comments and a pictorial atlas / Patricia Vickers-Rich, Luis M. Chiappe and Sergei Kurzanov

The Cretaceous short-armed Alvarezsauridae: Mononykus and its kin / Luis M. Chiappe, Mark A. Norell and James M. Clark

Alvarezsaurid relationships reconsidered / Fernando E. Novas and Diego Pol

Archaeopterygidae (Upper Jurassic of Germany) / Andrzej Elzanowski

The discovery and study of Mesozoic birds in China / Zhou Zhonghe and Hou Lianhai

Sinornis santensis (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the early Cretaceous of northeastern China / Paul C. Sereno, Rao Chenggang and Li Jianjun

The birds from the Lower Cretaceous of Las Hoyas (Province of Cuenca, Spain) / José L. Sanz ... [et al.]

Nogueromis gonzalezi (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the early Cretaceous of Spain / Luis M. Chiappe and Antonio Lacasa-Ruiz

Skeletal morphology and systematics of the Cretaceous Euenantiornithes (Ornithothoraces: Enantiornithes) / Luis M. Chiappe and Cyril A. Walker

Vorona berivotrensis, a primitive bird from the late Cretaceous of Madagascar / Catherine A. Forster ... [et al.]

Osteology of the flightless Patagopteryx deferrariisi from the late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina) / Luis M. Chiappe

Enaliornis, an early Cretaceous hesperornithiform bird from England, with comments on other Hesperornithiformes / Peter M. Galton and Larry D. Martin

The Mesozoic radiation of Neornithes / Sylvia Hope

A review of avian Mesozoic fossil feathers / Alexander W.A. Kellner

The track record of Mesozoic birds and pterosaurs: an ichnological and paleoecological perspective / Martin G. Lockley and Emma C. Rainforth

Bone microstructure of early birds / Anusuya Chinsamy

Locomotor evolution on the line to modern birds / Stephen M. Gatesy

Basal bird phylogeny: problems and solutions / Luis M. Chiappe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0520200942

OCLC:

47805081