The University Chicago Press, 1990. — 232 p.
Owls, Caves and Fossils is the first comprehensive, fully illustrated account of small mammal taphonomy. The study of small mammal remains has previously been neglected in favor of such large mammals as elephants, bovids, and carnivores, partly because the processes by which small mammals become fossils arc so poorly understood and...
ISTE Press - Elsevier, 2017. — 276 p. The fossil record of giant flightless birds extends back to the Late Cretaceous, more than 70 million years ago, but our understanding of these extinct birds is still incomplete. This is partly because the number of specimens available is sometimes limited, but also because widely different approaches have been used to study them, with...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — 304 p. When fossils of birds from China’s Jehol region first appeared in scientific circles, the world took notice. These Mesozoic masterpieces are between 120 and 131 million years old and reveal incredible details that capture the diversity of ancient bird life. Paleontologists all over the world began to collaborate with Chinese...
Smithsonian Contributions To Paleobiology. Number 89. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, D.C. 1999. 9 pages In the early evolution of birds, bill formation produced a problem for muscular control of the thin, elongated upper jaw. In particular, it required a relatively high retracting force. Three sources of this force evolved. (1) A powerful M. retractor palatini...
Alan Feduccia, 2012. — 368 p. “Romancing” refers to an ardent emotional attachment, and nowhere in paleontology does the term apply more aptly than to dinosaurs, which have long been an intense focus of almost every child’s fascination. But enchantment with the terrible lizards reached a crescendo with the 1993 Michael Crichton blockbuster movie Jurassic Park, featuring an...
Pan Aves, 2012. — 194 p. A comprehensive illustrated guide to the birds of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and their dinosaurian forebears. Each species is illustrated in multiple views with size and distinguishing features highlighted. Includes introduction summarizing current research into bird origins and evolution, and what we know (and don't know) about the life...
Berlin: Springer, 2009. — 262 p. — ISBN: 978-3-540-89627-2. Since birds are predominantly diurnal and often quite vociferous animals, their behavior and ecological requirements are probably better studied than those of any other vertebrate group. Detailed knowledge of their evolutionary history is, however, still limited to a small circle of specialists, and there is a...
Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016. — 309 p. — ISBN: 978-1-1190-2072-1. Knowledge of the evolutionary history of birds has much improved in recent decades. Fossils from critical time periods are being described at unprecedented rates and modern phylogenetic analyses have provided a framework for the interrelationships of the extant groups. This book gives an overview of...
2nd Edition. — Springer, 2022. — 250 p. - Detailed review of the Paleogene fossil record of birds with numerous color illustrations of relevant fossils - A key reference for paleornithologists and other researchers interested in the evolutionary history of modern birds - General sections that set the avian fossil record in a broader evolutionary context This second, completely...
2nd Edition. — Springer, 2022. — 250 p. - Detailed review of the Paleogene fossil record of birds with numerous color illustrations of relevant fossils - A key reference for paleornithologists and other researchers interested in the evolutionary history of modern birds - General sections that set the avian fossil record in a broader evolutionary context This second, completely...
Simon & Schuster, 1998. — 330 p. It is not much to document the origin of bird flight. Strictly speaking, these specimens are not the entire body of evidence. There are, of course, other fossil birds, not to mention bats, pterodactyls, and insects that have a few things to say about bird flight. And there are living creatures, mathematical models, and aerodynamic theories to...
Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. — 113 p. — ISBN: 978-94-007-5466-9. Modern birds ( Neornithes ) are represented by two big lineages, the Palaeognathae ( Tinamiformes + Ratitae ) and the Neognathae [ Galloanserae + Neoaves ( Metaves + Coronoaves )]. Both clades sum approximately 10,000 species of which 60% are Passeriformes (the most diverse clade of terrestrial...
Franklin Watts, 1995. — 65 p. — ISBN13: 978-0531112328. How do we find out about the origins of a group of animals, when the origins usually lie far in the past? This fascinating and appealingly written book looks at how scientists have searched for clues about the beginnings of birds, and are now building a body of evidence suggesting that birds descended from — and, in fact,...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 120 с. — (Труды Совместной Советско-Монгольской палеонтологической экспедиции. Выпуск 26).
Первая сводка по Азии обобщает многолетние исследования плиоценовых птиц Монголии, Забайкалья и Восточного Казахстана.
Описано 56 вымерших форм из 23 семейств птиц, часть из которых была непосредственными предками современных видов. Многие роды и некоторые семейства...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 120 с. Первая сводка по Азии обобщает многолетние исследования плиоценовых птиц Монголии, Забайкалья и Восточного Казахстана. Описано 56 вымерших форм из 23 семейств птиц, часть из которых была непосредственными предками современных видов. Многие роды и некоторые семейства впервые найдены в ископаемом состоянии. Дан систематический, экологический,...
Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014. — 104 с. На основании определения и изучения более 30 тыс. костей из 32 местонахождений позднего плейстоцена и голоцена юга Приенисейской Сибири в районе Красноярска указываются 125 видов птиц, отмеченных для данной территории с рубежа в 14-13 тыс. лет. Используя субфоссильные и фоссильные материалы, полученные из известного археологического...
PanAves, 2012. — 187 с. Происхождение птиц и их эволюция Реконструкция мезозойских птиц Определитель мезозойских птиц. В книге есть приложения и глоссарий.
Matthew P. Martyniuk. A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and other Winged Dinosaurs. Vernon, NJ: Pan Aves. 2012. ISBN13: 978-0-9885965-1-1. Любительский перевод 2017 г. Научно-популярное издание. Рассматриваются вопросы происхождения, эволюции, биологии и классификации ископаемых птиц. Кратко описаны основные группы вымерших птиц и их ближайших предков. Издание снабжено большим...
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