The Origin of Birds: Current Consensus, Controversy, and the Occurrence of Feathers
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- Rauhut, Oliver LMU München
- Foth, Christian ORCID University of Fribourg
- 2020
Published in:
- The Evolution of Feathers. - Springer International Publishing. - 2020, p. 27-45
English
Research in the late 1900s has established that birds are theropod dinosaurs, with the discovery of feather preservation in non-avian theropods being the last decisive evidence for the dinosaur origin of this group. Partially due to the great interest in the origin of birds,
more phylogenetic analyses of non-avian theropod dinosaurs have probably been published than for any other group of fossil vertebrates. Despite a lot of uncertainty in the exact placement of many taxa and even some major clades, there is a remarkable consensus about
the hierarchical position of birds (here used for the total group, Avialae) within theropod dinosaurs. Thus, birds are part of Paraves, together with such well-known theropod groups as dromaeosaurids and troodontids; Paraves are part of Maniraptora, which furthermore
include Oviraptorosauria, Therizinosauroidea and Alvarezsauridae; Maniraptora belong to Maniraptoriformes, which also include Ornithomimosauria; Maniraptoriformes are a subclade of Coelurosauria, to which Tyrannosauroidea and some other basal taxa also belong; Coelurosauria are part of Tetanurae, together with Allosauroidea and Megalosauroidea; finally, Tetanurae are a subclade of Theropoda, which also include Ceratosauria and Coelophysoidea.
more phylogenetic analyses of non-avian theropod dinosaurs have probably been published than for any other group of fossil vertebrates. Despite a lot of uncertainty in the exact placement of many taxa and even some major clades, there is a remarkable consensus about
the hierarchical position of birds (here used for the total group, Avialae) within theropod dinosaurs. Thus, birds are part of Paraves, together with such well-known theropod groups as dromaeosaurids and troodontids; Paraves are part of Maniraptora, which furthermore
include Oviraptorosauria, Therizinosauroidea and Alvarezsauridae; Maniraptora belong to Maniraptoriformes, which also include Ornithomimosauria; Maniraptoriformes are a subclade of Coelurosauria, to which Tyrannosauroidea and some other basal taxa also belong; Coelurosauria are part of Tetanurae, together with Allosauroidea and Megalosauroidea; finally, Tetanurae are a subclade of Theropoda, which also include Ceratosauria and Coelophysoidea.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Géosciences
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Palaeontology
- License
- Rights reserved
- Open access status
- green
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-27223-4_3
- ISSN 2509-6745
- ISBN 9783030272227
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/325285
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