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3D Camouflage in an Ornithischian Dinosaur

scientific article

A Fluvioviridavis-like bird from the Middle Eocene of Messel, Germany

article

A NEW CYPSELOMORPH BIRD FROM THE MIDDLE EOCENE OF GERMANY AND THE EARLY DIVERSIFICATION OF AVIAN AERIAL INSECTIVORES

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A New Trogon from the Middle Oligocene of Céreste, France

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A Paleocene penguin from New Zealand substantiates multiple origins of gigantism in fossil Sphenisciformes

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

A SKULL OF THE GIANT BONY-TOOTHED BIRDDASORNIS(AVES: PELAGORNITHIDAE) FROM THE LOWER EOCENE OF THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY

scientific article published in 2008

A SMALL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PHALACROCORACOIDEA (CORMORANTS AND ANHINGAS) FROM THE LATE OLIGOCENE OF GERMANY

scientific article (publication date: 2007)

A SMALL SUBOSCINE-LIKE PASSERIFORM BIRD FROM THE EARLY OLIGOCENE OF FRANCE

scholarly article published in The Condor in January 2006

A TINY BARBET-LIKE BIRD FROM THE LOWER OLIGOCENE OF GERMANY: THE SMALLEST SPECIES AND EARLIEST SUBSTANTIAL FOSSIL RECORD OF THE PICI (WOODPECKERS AND ALLIES)

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A TODY (ALCEDINIFORMES: TODIDAE) FROM THE EARLY OLIGOCENE OF GERMANY

scholarly article published in The Auk, January 2007

A chicken-sized crane precursor from the early Oligocene of France.

scientific article

A fossil heron from the early Oligocene of Belgium: the earliest temporally well-constrained record of the Ardeidae

scientific article

A goose-sized anseriform bird from the late Oligocene of France: the youngest record and largest species of Romainvilliinae

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A hoatzin fossil from the middle Miocene of Kenya documents the past occurrence of modern-type Opisthocomiformes in Africa

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A new Eocene swift-like bird with a peculiar feathering

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A new Messel rail from the Early Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark (Aves, Messelornithidae)

scholarly article by Sara Bertelli et al published December 2011 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

A new Paleogene procellariiform bird from western North America

article published in 2015

A new avian species with tubercle-bearing cervical vertebrae from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Germany). In Proceedings of the VII International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, ed. W.E. Boles and T.H. Worthy

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A new basal galliform bird from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Hessen, Germany)

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A new eocene -like mousebird (Aves: Coliiformes) with a remarkable gaping adaptation

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A new family of Eocene zygodactyl birds

A new fossil from the mid-Paleocene of New Zealand reveals an unexpected diversity of world's oldest penguins.

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

A new genus and species of Pelagornithidae with well-preserved pseudodentition and further avian remains from the middle Eocene of the Ukraine

article by Gerald Mayr & Evgenij Zvonok published 26 June 2012 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

A new mousebird (Coliiformes: Coliidae) from the Oligocene of Germany

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A new raptor-like bird from the Lower Eocene of North America and Europe

A new raptorial bird from the Middle Eocene of Messel, Germany

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A new species of woodpecker (Aves; Picidae) from the early Miocene of Saulcet (Allier, France)

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A new specimen of the Early Eocene Masillacolius brevidactylus and its implications for the evolution of feeding specializations in mousebirds (Coliiformes)

scientific article published in 2015

A partial skeleton of a new fossil loon (Aves, Gaviiformes) from the early Oligocene of Germany with preserved stomach content

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A previously unnoticed vascular trait of the middle ear suggests that a cranial heat-exchange structure contributed to the radiation of cold-adapted songbirds

scientific article published in 2018

A reassessment of Eocene parrotlike fossils indicates a previously undetected radiation of zygodactyl stem group representatives of passerines (Passeriformes)

scientific article published in 2015

A remarkable new ‘gruiform’ bird from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Hessen, Germany)

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A remarkably complete skeleton from the London Clay provides insights into the morphology and diversity of early Eocene zygodactyl near-passerine birds

A revision of the Lari (Aves, Charadriiformes) from the early Miocene of Saint-Gérand-le-Puy (Allier, France)

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A skeleton of a small rail from the Rupelian of Poland adds to the diversity of early Oligocene Ralloidea

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A skull of a very large crane from the late Miocene of Southern Germany, with notes on the phylogenetic interrelationships of extant Gruinae

scientific article published in 2020

A small, narrow‐beaked albatross from the Pliocene of New Zealand demonstrates a higher past diversity in the feeding ecology of the Diomedeidae ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

A small, “wader-like” bird from the Early Eocene of Messel (Germany)

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A stem lineage representative of buttonquails from the Lower Oligocene of Germany - fossil evidence for a charadriiform origin of the Turnicidae

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A sternum of a very large bony-toothed bird (Pelagornithidae) from the Miocene of Portugal

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A tiny stem group representative of Pici (Aves, Piciformes) from the early Oligocene of the Czech Republic

scholarly article by Gerald Mayr & Růžena Gregorová published 9 February 2012 in Paläontologische Zeitschrift

A tiny, long-legged raptor from the early Oligocene of Poland may be the earliest bird-eating diurnal bird of prey

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

A trogon-like arboreal bird from the early Eocene of China

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A well-preserved Archaeopteryx specimen with theropod features

scientific article

A well-preserved new mid-paleocene penguin (Aves, Sphenisciformes) from the Waipara Greensand in New Zealand

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A well-preserved partial skeleton of the poorly known early Miocene seriema Noriegavis santacrucensis (Aves, Cariamidae)

scientific article published in 2013

A well-preserved second trogon skeleton (Aves, Trogonidae) from the middle Eocene of Messel, Germany

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AStrigogyps-like bird from the middle Paleocene of China with an unusual grasping foot

scientific article

An assessment of the diversity of early Miocene Scolopaci (Aves, Charadriiformes) from Saint-Gérand-le-Puy (Allier, France)

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An early Eocene fossil from the British London Clay elucidates the evolutionary history of the enigmatic Archaeotrogonidae (Aves, Strisores) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

An osprey (Aves: Accipitridae: Pandioninae) from the early Oligocene of Germany

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AnElaphrocnemus-Like Landbird and Other Avian Remains from the Late Paleocene of Brazil

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Another charadriiform-like bird from the lower Eocene of Denmark

scholarly article by S. Bertelli et al published December 2013 in Paleontological Journal

Arboreal birds

2009 book chapter of "Paleogene Fossil Birds", Gerald Mayr

Avian Evolution

Avian feet, crocodilian food and the diversity of larger birds in the early Eocene of Messel

Avian higher-level phylogeny: well-supported clades and what we can learn from a phylogenetic analysis of 2954 morphological characters

scientific article

Bizarre tubercles on the vertebrae of Eocene fossil birds indicate an avian disease without modern counterpart

scientific article published in 2007

Bristle-like integumentary structures at the tail of the horned dinosaur Psittacosaurus.

scientific article

Calcardea junnei Gingerich, 1987 from the late Paleocene of North America is not a heron, but resembles the early Eocene Indian taxon Vastanavis Mayr et al., 2007

scientific article published in 2018

Can ovarian follicles fossilize?

scientific article published in July 2013

Caprimulgiform birds from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Hessen, Germany)

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Charadriiform birds from the early Oligocene of Céreste (France) and the Middle Eocene of Messel (Hessen, Germany)

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Comment on Braun and Huddleston "A molecular phylogenetic survey of caprimulgiform nightbirds illustrates the utility of non-coding sequences"

scientific article published on 24 December 2009

Cranial morphology of the Early Cretaceous bird Confuciusornis

Did parrots exist in the Cretaceous period?

scientific article published in Nature

Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and fossils

scientific article

Ducks, rails, and limicoline waders (Aves: Anseriformes, Gruiformes, Charadriiformes) from the lowermost Oligocene of Belgium

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Earliest and first Northern Hemispheric hoatzin fossils substantiate Old World origin of a "Neotropic endemic".

scientific article

Earliest northeastern Atlantic Ocean basin record of an auk (Charadriiformes, Pan-Alcidae): fossil remains from the Miocene of Germany

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Early Eocene (Ypresian) birds from the Okanagan Highlands, British Columbia (Canada) and Washington State (USA)

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Early Eocene fossil illuminates the ancestral (diurnal) ecomorphology of owls and documents a mosaic evolution of the strigiform body plan

scientific article published in 2022

Eocene fossil is earliest evidence of flower-visiting by birds

scientific article (publication date: May 2014)

Eocene parrots from Messel (Hessen, Germany) and the London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, England)

article

Erratum to: “Another charadriiform-like bird from the Lower Eocene of Denmark”

scholarly article by S. Bertelli et al published December 2014 in Paleontological Journal

Exceptionally well-preserved early Eocene fossil reveals cranial and vertebral features of a stem group roller (Aves: Coraciiformes)

scientific article published in 2018

First Old World record of the poorly known, swan-sized anseriform bird Paranyroca from the late Oligocene/early Miocene of France

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First diagnosable non-sphenisciform bird from the early Paleocene of New Zealand

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First record of a tarsometatarsus of Tonsala hildegardae (Plotopteridae) and other avian remains from the late Eocene/early Oligocene of Washington State (USA)

article by Gerald Mayr & James L. Goedert published February 2018 in Geobios

First substantial Middle Eocene record of the Lithornithidae (Aves): A postcranial skeleton from Messel (Germany)

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Fragmentary but distinctive: three new avian species from the early Eocene of Messel, with the earliest record of medullary bone in a Cenozoic bird

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GASTRIC PELLETS WITH BIRD REMAINS FROM THE EARLY EOCENE OF MESSEL

article by Gerald Mayr & STEPHAN F.K. SCHAAL published September 2016 in PALAIOS

Late Oligocene mousebird converges on parrots in skull morphology

scientific article published in 2013

Leg bones of a new penguin species from the Waipara Greensand add to the diversity of very large-sized Sphenisciformes in the Paleocene of New Zealand

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

MIOCENE SONGBIRDS AND THE COMPOSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PASSERIFORM AVIFAUNA

scholarly article published in The Auk, January 2004

Melanosome diversity and convergence in the evolution of iridescent avian feathers-implications for paleocolor reconstruction

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Middle Eocene Pelagornithidae and Gaviiformes (Aves) from the Ukrainian Paratethys

scientific article published in 2011

Morphological evidence for sister group relationship between flamingos (Aves: Phoenicopteridae) and grebes (Podicipedidae)

scientific article (publication date: February 2004)

Mousebirds (Coliiformes), parrots (Psittaciformes), and other small birds from the late Oligocene/early Miocene of the Mainz Basin, Germany

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Multiple skeletons of Rhynchaeites from the London Clay reveal the osteology of early Eocene ibises (Aves, Threskiornithidae)

scientific article published in 2023

Narrow-beaked trogons from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK)

scientific article published in 2023

Nematodes in wastewater biofilms--appearance and density of species in three biofilter reactors

scientific article

New Bird Remains from the Middle Eocene of Guangdong, China

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New avian remains from the Paleocene of New Zealand: the first early Cenozoic Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds) from the Southern Hemisphere

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New data on the anatomy and palaeobiology of sandcoleid mousebirds (Aves, Coliiformes) from the early Eocene of Messel

New late Eocene and Oligocene remains of the flightless, penguin-like plotopterids (Aves, Plotopteridae) from western Washington State, U.S.A

article by Gerald Mayr & James L. Goedert published 21 April 2016 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

New or previously unrecorded avian taxa from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Hessen, Germany)

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New remains of the EoceneProphaethonand the early evolution of tropicbirds (Phaethontiformes)

article by Gerald Mayr published 18 October 2014 in Ibis

New species of Primozygodactylus from Messel and the ecomorphology and evolutionary significance of early Eocene zygodactylid birds (Aves, Zygodactylidae)

New specimens of zygodactylid birds from the middle Eocene of Messel, with description of a new species of Primozygodactylus ⬇️

scholarly article (2009)

New trogons from the early Tertiary of Germany

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Notes on the osteology and phylogenetic affinities of the Oligocene Diomedeoididae (Aves, Procellariiformes)

scholarly article by Gerald Mayr published August 2009 in Fossil Record

Old World fossil record of modern-type hummingbirds

scientific article

Oldest fossil loon documents a pronounced ecomorphological shift in the evolution of gaviiform birds ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 July 2022

Oldest, smallest and phylogenetically most basal pelagornithid, from the early Paleocene of New Zealand, sheds light on the evolutionary history of the largest flying birds ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2019

Oligocene and Miocene albatross fossils from Washington State (USA) and the evolutionary history of North Pacific Diomedeidae

scientific article published in 2017

On the Middle Miocene avifauna of Maboko Island, Kenya

scholarly article by Gerald Mayr published May 2014 in Geobios

On the comparative morphology of the juvenile avian skull: An assessment of squamosal shape across avian higher-level taxa

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

On the diverse and widely ignored Paleocene avifauna of Menat (Puy-de-Dôme, France): new taxonomic records and unusual soft tissue preservation

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On the occurrence of lateral openings and fossae (pleurocoels) in the thoracic vertebrae of neornithine birds and their functional significance ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

On the phylogenetic relationships of trogons (Aves, Trogonidae)

scholarly article by Gerald Mayr published March 2003 in Journal of Avian Biology

On the purported presence of fossilized collagen fibres in an ichthyosaur and a theropod dinosaur

scholarly article by Fiann M. Smithwick et al published 17 April 2017 in Palaeontology

On the taxonomic composition and phylogenetic affinities of the recently proposed clade Vegaviidae Agnolín et al., 2017 ‒ neornithine birds from the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Hemisphere

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On the taxonomy and osteology of the Early Eocene North American Geranoididae (Aves, Gruoidea)

On the true affinities ofChenornis graculoidesPortis, 1884, andAnas lignitifilaPortis, 1884—an albatross and an unusual duck from the Miocene of Italy

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Osteological evidence for paraphyly of the avian order Caprimulgiformes (nightjars and allies)

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Osteology and phylogenetic affinities of the middle Eocene North American Bathornis grallator—one of the best represented, albeit least known Paleogene cariamiform birds (seriemas and allies)

scholarly article by Gerald Mayr published March 2016 in Journal of Paleontology

Osteology of a new giant bony-toothed bird from the Miocene of Chile, with a revision of the taxonomy of Neogene Pelagornithidae

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Out of Africa: Fossils shed light on the origin of the hoatzin, an iconic Neotropic bird ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2011

PHYLOGENY OF EARLY TERTIARY SWIFTS AND HUMMINGBIRDS (AVES: APODIFORMES)

scholarly article by Gerald Mayr published 2003 in The Auk

Paleogene Fossil Birds

2009 book by Gerald Mayr

Parrot interrelationships—morphology and the new molecular phylogenies

scholarly article by Gerald Mayr published December 2010 in Emu

Parvigruidae (Aves, core Gruiformes) from the early Oligocene of Belgium

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Pectoral girdle morphology of Mesozoic birds and the evolution of the avian supracoracoideus muscle

scientific journal article

Pelvis morphology suggests that early Mesozoic birds were too heavy to contact incubate their eggs

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

Phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic avian taxonzygodactylusbased on new material from the early oligocene of France

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Phylogenetic interrelationships of living and extinct Tinamidae, volant palaeognathous birds from the New World

scholarly article by Sara Bertelli et al published 4 August 2014 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Preservation of uropygial gland lipids in a 48-million-year-old bird

scientific article published in 2017

Psittacopedids and zygodactylids: The diverse and species-rich psittacopasserine birds from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK)

scientific article published in 2022

Quercypsitta-like birds from the early Eocene of India (Aves, ?Psittaciformes)

article by Gerald Mayr et al published 24 March 2010 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Reappraisal of early Miocene rails (Aves, Rallidae) from central France: diversity and character evolution

article

Response to Comment on "A Well-Preserved Archaeopteryx Specimen with Theropod Features"

scientific article (publication date: September 2006)

Rollers (Aves: Coraciiformes s.s.) from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Germany) and the Upper Eocene of the Quercy (France)

article

Schriftenschau

Size and number of the hypoglossal nerve foramina in the avian skull and their potential neuroanatomical significance

scientific article published on 31 October 2017

Skeletal morphology of the middle Eocene swift Scaniacypselus and the evolutionary history of true swifts (Apodidae)

Skeleton of a new owl from the early Eocene of North America (Aves, Strigiformes) with an accipitrid-like foot morphology

article by Gerald Mayr et al published 3 March 2020 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Skeletons from the early Oligocene of Poland fill a significant temporal gap in the fossil record of upupiform birds (hoopoes and allies)

Southern hemisphere tectonics in the Cenozoic shaped the pantropical distribution of parrots and passerines

scientific article published in 2022

Structural coloration in a fossil feather

scientific article

Structure and homology ofPsittacosaurustail bristles

article

TINY HOOPOE-LIKE BIRDS FROM THE MIDDLE EOCENE OF MESSEL (GERMANY)

scholarly article published in The Auk, January 2000

Tertiary plotopterids (Aves, Plotopteridae) and a novel hypothesis on the phylogenetic relationships of penguins (Spheniscidae)

scholarly article by Gerald Mayr published February 2005 in Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

The Palaeogene Old World potooParapreficaMayr, 1999 (Aves, Nyctibiidae): Its osteology and affinities to the New World Preficinae Olson, 1987

The Paleogene fossil record of birds in Europe.

scientific article published in November 2005

The Rauenberg fossil Lagerstätte (Baden-Württemberg, Germany): A window into early Oligocene marine and coastal ecosystems of Central Europe

article

The age of the crown group of passerine birds and its evolutionary significance – molecular calibrations versus the fossil record

scientific article published in 2013

The alleged early Miocene Auk Petralca austriaca is a Loon (Aves, Gaviiformes): restudy of a controversial fossil bird

The birds from the Paleocene fissure filling of Walbeck (Germany)

article

The deep divergences of neornithine birds: a phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters

scholarly article by Gerald Mayr published December 2003 in Cladistics

The early Eocene birds of the Messel fossil site: a 48 million-year-old bird community adds a temporal perspective to the evolution of tropical avifaunas

scientific article

The enigmaticIbidopodiafrom the early Miocene of France—the first Neogene record of Cariamiformes (Aves) in Europe

article

The large-sized darter Anhinga pannonica (Aves, Anhingidae) from the late Miocene hominid Hammerschmiede locality in Southern Germany

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

The mousebirds (Aves: Coliiformes) from the Middle Eocene of Grube Messel (Hessen, Germany)

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The oldest European fossil songbird from the early Oligocene of Germany

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The phylogeny of charadriiform birds (shorebirds and allies) - reassessing the conflict between morphology and molecules

scholarly article by Gerald Mayr published 12 January 2011 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

The tenth skeletal specimen of Archaeopteryx

scientific article published in 2007

The world’s smallest owl, the earliest unambiguous charadriiform bird, and other avian remains from the early Eocene Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia (USA)

article by Gerald Mayr published 14 October 2016 in Paläontologische Zeitschrift

Towards completion of the early Eocene aviary: A new bird group from the Messel oil shale (Aves, Eopachypterygidae, fam. nov.)

scientific article (publication date: 8 September 2015)

Two new skeletons of the enigmatic, rail-like avian taxonSongziaHou, 1990 (Songziidae) from the early Eocene of China

article

Waders (Scolopacidae) surviving despite malaligned leg fractures in the wild: kinematics of bipedal locomotion

Waves of genomic hitchhikers shed light on the evolution of gamebirds (Aves: Galliformes)

scientific article

Well-preserved new skeleton of the Middle EoceneMesselastursubstantiates sister group relationship between Messelasturidae and Halcyornithidae (Aves, ?Pan-Psittaciformes)

article published in 2011

“Coraciiforme” und “piciforme” Kleinvögel aus dem Mittel-Eozän der Grube Messel (Hessen, Deutschland)

scientific article published in 1998

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