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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology Volume 9, 2011 - Issue 1: Avian Palaeontology in Memory of Cyril A. Walker
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Well-preserved new skeleton of the Middle Eocene Messelastur substantiates sister group relationship between Messelasturidae and Halcyornithidae (Aves, ?Pan-Psittaciformes)

Gerald Mayr Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Sektion Ornithologie, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Pages 159-171 | Received 05 Apr 2010, Accepted 28 Jun 2010, Published online: 26 Dec 2010

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Ellen K. Mather, Michael S. Y. Lee, Aaron B. Camens & Trevor H. Worthy. (2022) An exceptional partial skeleton of a new basal raptor (Aves: Accipitridae) from the late Oligocene Namba formation, South Australia. Historical Biology 34:7, pages 1175-1207.
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DanielT. Ksepka & JuliaA. Clarke. (2012) A new stem parrot from the Green River Formation and the complex evolution of the grasping foot in Pan-Psittaciformes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32:2, pages 395-406.
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Alex S. Aires, Leici M. Reichert, Rodrigo T. Müller & Marco B. Andrade. (2021) Review of morphology, development, and evolution of the notarium in birds. The Anatomical Record 305:9, pages 2079-2098.
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Gerald Mayr. (2021) A partial skeleton of a new species of Tynskya Mayr, 2000 (Aves, Messelasturidae) from the London Clay highlights the osteological distinctness of a poorly known early Eocene “owl/parrot mosaic”. PalZ 95:2, pages 337-357.
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Tobin L. Hieronymus, David A. Waugh & Julia A. Clarke. (2019) A new zygodactylid species indicates the persistence of stem passerines into the early Oligocene in North America. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19:1.
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Oscar E. R. Lehmann, Martín D. Ezcurra, Richard J. Butler & Graeme T. Lloyd. (2019) Biases with the Generalized Euclidean Distance measure in disparity analyses with high levels of missing data. Palaeontology 62:5, pages 837-849.
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GERALD MAYR, SOPHIE HERVET & ERIC BUFFETAUT. (2018) On the diverse and widely ignored Paleocene avifauna of Menat (Puy-de-Dôme, France): new taxonomic records and unusual soft tissue preservation. Geological Magazine 156:3, pages 572-584.
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Daria Razmadze, Aleksandra A. Panyutina & Nikita V. Zelenkov. (2018) Anatomy of the forelimb musculature and ligaments of Psittacus erithacus (Aves: Psittaciformes) . Journal of Anatomy 233:4, pages 496-530.
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Gerald Mayr. 2016. Avian Evolution. Avian Evolution 248 287 .
João Francisco Botelho, Daniel Smith-Paredes & Alexander O. Vargas. (2015) Altriciality and the Evolution of Toe Orientation in Birds. Evolutionary Biology 42:4, pages 502-510.
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Gerald Mayr. (2015) A reassessment of Eocene parrotlike fossils indicates a previously undetected radiation of zygodactyl stem group representatives of passerines (Passeriformes). Zoologica Scripta 44:6, pages 587-602.
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Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, Martin Pickford & Brigitte Senut. (2015) Stem group galliform and stem group psittaciform birds (Aves, Galliformes, Paraortygidae, and Psittaciformes, family incertae sedis) from the Middle Eocene of Namibia. Journal of Ornithology 156:1, pages 275-286.
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Jamie R. Wood, Kieren J. Mitchell, R. Paul Scofield, Alan. J. D. Tennyson, Andrew E. Fidler, Janet M. Wilmshurst, Bastien Llamas & Alan Cooper. (2014) An extinct nestorid parrot (Aves, Psittaciformes, Nestoridae) from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172:1, pages 185-199.
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João Francisco Botelho, Daniel Smith-Paredes, Daniel Nuñez-Leon, Sergio Soto-Acuña & Alexander O. Vargas. (2014) The developmental origin of zygodactyl feet and its possible loss in the evolution of Passeriformes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281:1788, pages 20140765.
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Gerald Mayr. (2014) The origins of crown group birds: molecules and fossils. Palaeontology 57:2, pages 231-242.
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M. T. Mahmood, P. A. McLenachan, G. C. Gibb & D. Penny. (2014) Phylogenetic Position of Avian Nocturnal and Diurnal Raptors. Genome Biology and Evolution 6:2, pages 326-332.
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G. Mayr, R. S. Rana, K. D. Rose, A. Sahni, K. Kumar & T. Smith. (2013) New specimens of the early Eocene bird Vastanavis and the interrelationships of stem group Psittaciformes. Paleontological Journal 47:11, pages 1308-1314.
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Daniel T. Ksepka, Julia A. Clarke & Lance Grande. (2011) Stem Parrots (Aves, Halcyornithidae) from the Green River Formation and a Combined Phylogeny of Pan-Psittaciformes. Journal of Paleontology 85:5, pages 835-852.
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Gerald Mayr & Sara Bertelli. (2011) A record of Rhynchaeites (Aves, Threskiornithidae) from the early Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark, and the affinities of the alleged parrot Mopsitta. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 91:3, pages 229-236.
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