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List of works by Daniel J. Field

A North American stem turaco, and the complex biogeographic history of modern birds.

scientific article

A Phylogenomic Supertree of Birds

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

scientific article

Barb geometry of asymmetrical feathers reveals a transitional morphology in the evolution of avian flight

scientific article

Best practices for digitally constructing endocranial casts: examples from birds and their dinosaurian relatives.

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Big-time insights from a tiny bird fossil

scientific article published on 14 July 2017

Bird Evolution: Convergence Fits the Bill

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Climatic shifts drove major contractions in avian latitudinal distributions throughout the Cenozoic

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Complete Ichthyornis skull illuminates mosaic assembly of the avian head

scientific article published in Nature

Convergent evolution driven by similar feeding mechanics in balaenopterid whales and pelicans

scientific article

Correction to 'Experimental maturation of feathers: implications for reconstructions of fossil feather colour'.

scientific article published on March 2017

Cretaceous ornithurine supports a neognathous crown bird ancestor

scientific article published in 2022

Distinct developmental pathways underlie independent losses of flight in ratites

scientific article

Early Evolution of Modern Birds Structured by Global Forest Collapse at the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction

article published in 2018

Earth history and the passerine superradiation

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Eggshell geochemistry reveals ancestral metabolic thermoregulation in Dinosauria

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Endless skulls most beautiful

scientific article published on 29 December 2017

Evolution and dispersal of snakes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction

scientific article published in 2021

Evolutionary origin of the turtle skull

scientific article published on 2 September 2015

Evolutionary pathways toward gigantism in sharks and rays

scientific article published on 24 January 2019

Experimental maturation of feathers: implications for reconstructions of fossil feather colour

scientific article (publication date: 23 June 2013)

Forty new specimens of <i>Ichthyornis</i> provide unprecedented insight into the postcranial morphology of crownward stem group birds

scientific article published in 2022

Fossil basicranium clarifies the origin of the avian central nervous system and inner ear

scientific article published on 28 September 2022

Genomic Signature of an Avian Lilliput Effect across the K-Pg Extinction

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Interspecific Competition inGrallariaAntpittas: Observations at a Feeder

article

Late Cretaceous neornithine from Europe illuminates the origins of crown birds

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary

scientific article (publication date: 13 September 2011)

Melanin concentration gradients in modern and fossil feathers

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Molecular early burst associated with the diversification of birds at the K–Pg boundary

New Material of Paleocene-Eocene Pellornis (Aves: Gruiformes) Clarifies the Pattern and Timing of the Extant Gruiform Radiation

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Pelagic neonatal fossils support viviparity and precocial life history of Cretaceous mosasaurs

scientific article published in 2015

Preliminary paleoecological insights from the Pliocene avifauna of Kanapoi, Kenya: Implications for the ecology of Australopithecus anamensis

scientific article published on 28 September 2017

Quantitative computed tomography of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) mandibles: mechanical implications for rorqual lunge-feeding

scientific article published on July 2010

Skeletal correlates for body mass estimation in modern and fossil flying birds

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Synchrotron imaging of dentition provides insights into the biology of Hesperornis and Ichthyornis, the "last" toothed birds

scientific article

Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution

scientific article published on 18 April 2020

The amniote temporal roof and the diapsid origin of the turtle skull

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The oldest marine vertebrate fossil from the volcanic island of Iceland: a partial right whale skull from the high latitude Pliocene Tjörnes Formation

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The origin of snakes: revealing the ecology, behavior, and evolutionary history of early snakes using genomics, phenomics, and the fossil record

scientific article

The skull roof tracks the brain during the evolution and development of reptiles including birds

article

Torosaurus Is Not Triceratops: Ontogeny in Chasmosaurine Ceratopsids as a Case Study in Dinosaur Taxonomy

scientific article published on February 29, 2012

Toward consilience in reptile phylogeny: miRNAs support an archosaur, not lepidosaur, affinity for turtles

scientific article

Wing Musculature Reconstruction in Extinct Flightless Auks (<i>Pinguinus</i> and <i>Mancalla</i>) Reveals Incomplete Convergence with Penguins (Spheniscidae) Due to Differing Ancestral States

scientific article published in 2020