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    still in use for an oogenus of fossil bird eggs. Also, other animals (in particular pterosaurs) were placed in these "genera". In sources pre-dating the...
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    classification List of birds List of bird genera List of dinosaur ichnogenera List of fossil bird genera List of informally named dinosaurs List of ichthyosaur...
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    Megapode (redirect from Mound Bird)
    of chicken eggs and the yolks are roughly four times as massive. List of recently extinct birds Late Quaternary prehistoric birds List of fossil bird...
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    genera List of fossil bird genera List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species List of fossil primates Lists of prehistoric fish List of bird extinctions...
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    Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with...
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    Lists of birds by region Extinct birds List of recently extinct bird species List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species List of fossil bird genera List...
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  • of prehistoric animals: List of prehistoric amphibian genera List of prehistoric mammals List of fossil bird genera List of crurotarsan genera List of...
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    extant species of penguins recognised by the International Ornithologists' Union, distributed among six genera. Many species of fossil penguins are known...
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    flocks of geese graze crops in the winter.[citation needed] List of recently extinct birds Late Quaternary prehistoric birds List of fossil bird genera Short...
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    Curlew (redirect from Numenius (genera))
    Allen, J.A. (1910). "Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 28: 317–335. hdl:2246/678...
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    related birds Extinct species of extant genera Colaptes Bermuda flicker, Colaptes oceanicus (Bermuda, West Atlantic, 17th century?) Known only from fossil bones...
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    Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 294. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1934). Check-List of Birds of the World...
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  • This list of pterosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Pterosauria, excluding purely vernacular terms...
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  • Stilt-owl (category Extinct birds of Hawaii)
    Ornimegalonyx List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species List of extinct bird species since 1500 List of fossil bird genera List of extinct animals...
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    Gray, George Robert (1841). A List of the Genera of Birds : with their Synonyma and an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus (2nd ed.). London:...
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    until the 19th century List of extinct bird species since 1500 List of fossil bird genera Lists of extinct species Flightless bird Holocene extinction event...
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  • archosaurs, but this list excludes archosaur genera that are included in Avemetatarsalia (pterosaurs, nonavian dinosaurs, and birds). The list includes all commonly...
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  • epoch of geologic time to which the fossils date. Genera that are invalid, misidentified, or otherwise do not represent a valid Mesozoic bird are listed as...
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    en. Brodkorb, Pierce (1964). "Catalogue of Fossil Birds: Part 2 (Anseriformes through Galliformes)". Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. 8 (3): 195–335...
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    Elephant birds are extinct flightless birds belonging to the order Aepyornithiformes that were native to the island of Madagascar. They are thought to...
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  • is a list of stratigraphic units from which dinosaur body fossils have been recovered. Although Dinosauria is a clade which includes modern birds, this...
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    The Ashfall Fossil Beds of Antelope County in northeastern Nebraska are rare fossil sites of the type called lagerstätten that, due to extraordinary local...
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    discovery of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx in Germany. Birds and extinct non-avian dinosaurs share many unique skeletal traits. Moreover, fossils of more...
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  • Cygnus paloregonus (category Fossils of the United States)
    Hildegarde Howard in Delacour's The Waterfowl of the World as "probably the mute type swan". List of fossil bird genera Silver Lake (Oregon) Notes On Paleopathology...
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    nocturnal woodland birds. Most prey on small mammals, birds, and reptiles. Most owls in the genus Strix can be distinguished from other genera of owls through...
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    considered a living fossil, the fossil species must be old relative to the time of origin of the extant clade. Living fossils commonly are of species-poor lineages...
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  • currently described. Valenticarbo List of fossil bird genera Mayr, Gerald (April 21, 2009). Paleogene Fossil Birds. Berlin: Springer. pp. 65–67. ISBN 978-3-540-89627-2...
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    Aburria. These genera's ancestors apparently diverged some time during the Burdigalian, 20-15 Myr, but this is not corroborated by fossil evidence (Pereira...
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    Anas (category Bird genera)
    [citation needed] Mallard complex List of recently extinct birds Late Quaternary prehistoric birds List of fossil bird genera "Anatidae". aviansystematics...
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    for a transitional fossil between dinosaurs and birds, making it important in the study both of dinosaurs and of the origin of birds. The first complete...
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