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

Gerald Mayr

doi:10.3897/vz.71.e71268

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Vertebrate Zoology 71: 453-463
https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.71.e71268 (05 Aug 2021)

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Gerald Mayr, Andrew C. Kitchener (2023)
Psittacopedids and zygodactylids: The diverse and species-rich psittacopasserine birds from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK). Historical Biology 35: 2372.

DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2022.2141629

Gerald Mayr, Andrew C. Kitchener (2023)
The galliform birds from the Lower Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, U.K.): New species suggest faunal connections to Asia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 43: .

DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2024.2374305

Juan Benito, Albert Chen, Laura E. Wilson, Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar, David Burnham, Daniel J. Field (2022)
Forty new specimens of Ichthyornis provide unprecedented insight into the postcranial morphology of crownward stem group birds. PeerJ 10: e13919.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13919

Gerald Mayr, Andrew C. Kitchener (2023)
Multiple skeletons of Rhynchaeites from the London Clay reveal the osteology of early Eocene ibises (Aves, Threskiornithidae). PalZ 97: 425.

DOI: 10.1007/s12542-022-00647-1

Gerald Mayr, Andrew C. Kitchener (2024)
Messelornithids and messelornithid-like birds from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK). Geobios : .

DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2023.12.011

Adam B. Lawson, Aracely Martinez, Brandon P. Hedrick, M. Scott Echols, Emma R. Schachner (2024)
Variation in air sac morphology and postcranial skeletal pneumatization patterns in the African grey parrot. Journal of Anatomy : .

DOI: 10.1111/joa.14146

Gerald Mayr, Andrew C. Kitchener (2023)
Early Eocene fossil illuminates the ancestral (diurnal) ecomorphology of owls and documents a mosaic evolution of the strigiform body plan. Ibis 165: 231.

DOI: 10.1111/ibi.13125

Gerald Mayr, Andrew C. Kitchener (2023)
New species from the early Eocene London Clay suggest an undetected early Eocene diversity of the Leptosomiformes, an avian clade that includes a living fossil from Madagascar. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 103: 585.

DOI: 10.1007/s12549-022-00560-0

Peter Houde, Meig Dickson, Dakota Camarena (2023)
Basal Anseriformes from the Early Paleogene of North America and Europe. Diversity 15: 233.

DOI: 10.3390/d15020233

Gerald Mayr, Andrew C. Kitchener (2024)
The Halcyornithidae from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK): A species complex of Paleogene arboreal birds. Geobios 83: 45.

DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2023.06.003

Gerald Mayr, Andrew C Kitchener (2022)
Oldest fossil loon documents a pronounced ecomorphological shift in the evolution of gaviiform birds. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196: 1431.

DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac045

Gerald Mayr, Vanesa L. De Pietri, Leigh Love, Al Mannering, Erica Crouch, Catherine Reid, R. Paul Scofield (2023)
Partial skeleton from the Paleocene of New Zealand illuminates the early evolutionary history of the Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds). Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 47: 315.

DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2023.2246528

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