Paleornithology

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Paleornithology ( Greek : palaios = old, ornis = bird, logos = word) is the branch of palaeozoology that deals with fossil birds .

Although there are a number of palaeontological and biological groups dealing with paleornithological issues and early bird finds have been of public interest in recent years, the term is rarely used.

The international society for palaeornithology is the Society of Avian Palaeontology and Evolution (SAPE).

Iberomesornis from the chalk in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid

Questions of palaeornithology

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The following topics have been the subject of paleornithological research in recent years:

Important extinct bird taxa

Extinct groups of birds from the Mesozoic Era

Groups of birds extinct in the Cenozoic

  • Infraclass Ornithothoraces :
Order Anseriformes (duck birds): Family Dromornithidae (Mihirungs)
Order Pelecaniformes (pelican birds): family Plotopteridae, family Pelagornithidae
Order " Gruiformes ": family Phorusrhacidae , family Messelornithidae
Order uncertain: Family Diatrymidae

Well-known paleornithologists

literature

Standard works

  • Alan Feduccia: The Origin and Evolution of Birds. 2nd Edition. Yale University Press, New Haven 1999, ISBN 0-300-07861-7 .
  • Alan Feduccia: The Age of Birds. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1980 (German edition: Alan Feduccia: It began on the Jura Sea. The fascinating tribal history of birds. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1984, ISBN 3-8067-2015-0 ).
  • Kálmán Lambrecht: Handbook of Palaeornithology. Borntraeger, Berlin 1933.

Conference proceedings

  • Max K. Hecht u. a. (Ed.): The Beginnings of Birds. Friends of the Eichstätt Jura Museum, Eichstätt 1985, ISBN 3-9801178-0-4 .
  • Storrs L. Olson (Ed.): Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington 1999.
  • Dieter Stefan Peters (Ed.): Acta palaeornithologica. 3rd Symposium SAPE, 5th International Senckenberg Conference 22. – 26. June 1992. Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-929907-22-4 .
  • Z. Zhou, F. Zhang (Eds.): Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paoleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000. China Science Press, Beijing 2002.

Books, monographs and edited volumes on the origins of birds and birds of the Mesozoic era

  • Sankar Chatterjee: The Rise of Birds. 225 Million Years of Evolution. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1997, ISBN 0-8018-5615-9 .
  • Sankar Chatterjee: Protoavis and the early evolution of birds. In: Palaeontographica A. 254, 1999, pp. 1-100.
  • Luis M. Chiappe, Shu'an Ji, Qiang Ji, Mark A. Norell: Anatomy and Systematics of the Confuciusornithidae (Theropoda: Aves) from the Late Mesozoic of Northeastern China. (PDF file; 9.29 MB) In: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. No. 242, 1999.
  • Lowell Dingus, Timothy Rowe: The Mistaken Extinction. Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds. Freeman, New York 1998, ISBN 0-7167-3227-0 .
  • Jacques Gauthier, Lawrence F. Gall (Eds.): New Perspectives on the origin and early evolution of birds. Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University, New Haven 1999, ISBN 0-912532-57-2 .
  • Gerhard Heilmann: The Origin of Birds. Dover Publications, London 1926.
  • Lianhai Hou: Picture Book of Chinese Fossil Birds. Yunnan Science and Technology Press, Kunming 2000, ISBN 7-5416-1383-5 .
  • Kevin Padian (Ed.): The origin of birds and the evolution of flight. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco 1986, ISBN 0-940228-14-9 .
  • Gregory S. Paul: Dinosaurs of the Air. The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2001, ISBN 0-8018-6763-0 .
  • Pat Shipman: Taking Wing. Archeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight. - Simon & Schuster, New York 1999, ISBN 0-684-81131-6 .
  • Luis M. Chiappe, Lawrence M. Witmer (Eds.): Mesozoic Birds. Above the Heads of the Dinosaurs. University of California Press, Berkeley 2002, ISBN 0-520-20094-2 (recommendation for an introduction to the subject).

Books and monographs on Cenozoic birds

  • Gerald Mayr: Paleogene fossil birds Springer, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 3-540-89627-9 .
  • Peter F. Murray, Patricia Vickers-Rich: Magnificent Mihirungs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2003, ISBN 0-253-34282-1 .
  • Trevor H. Worthy, Richard N. Holdaway: The Lost World of the Moa. Prehistoric Life of New Zealand. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2002, ISBN 0-253-34034-9 .

Important review articles

  • Luis M. Chiappe: The first 85 million years of avian evolution . In: Nature. 378, 1995, pp. 349-355, doi: 10.1038 / 378349a0 .
  • P. Wellnhofer: The feathered dinosaurs of China. In: Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau. 55, No. 9, 2002, pp. 465-477.
  • Zhonghe Zhou: The origin and early evolution of birds: discoveries, disputes and perspectives from fossil evidence. In: Natural Sciences. 91, 2004, No. 10, pp. 455–471, doi: 10.1007 / s00114-004-0570-4 (recommendation to get started with the topic).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Society of Avian Palaeontology and Evolution (SAPE) (English)

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