… of the entire biota, emphasising its impact on wide-ranging … Formation (demonstrating an
earliest Cretaceous, Berriasian age … ecological diversification of avian taxa occurred during the …

… Fossil evidence of avian crops from the Early Cretaceous of China. … implication of our
phylogeny is that stem passerines underwent an early morphological and ecological diversification …

… the great diversity in the Early Cretaceous, which occurred approximately 20 million years
after the earliest bird, … The practice of collecting large numbers of small stones in the gizzard is …

… the first Neornithine-like birds appeared c. 80–85 Ma in the … that survived the late Cretaceous
mass extinction event … Additionally, ecology had a significant effect on lineage diversity. …

… of Confuciusornis, the oldest known beaked bird, is erected … feducciai is the largest and
shows the highest ratio of the … on our understanding of the ecology of fossil birds. Adaptation to a …

… the impact of fossil record quality on the taxic diversity of … When we examine Late Cretaceous
species alone, this … to-date analysis of Mesozoic avian diversity, including the first attempt to …

… of mesozoic birds: implications for early avian evolution. … As the largest and best-known
vertebrates in Late Cretaceous terrestrial … However, the taxonomic and morphological diversity of …

… evolution of aspects of extant avian ecology and cranial evolution. … is the first known occurrence
in a Mesozoic bird. A similar … Both non-terminal phalanges of this digit are the longest of …

… non-avian dinosaurs and birds have been collected from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota
of … First, we added Chongmingia into the largest published coelurosaurian matrix (104 taxa …

… heterogeneous between different Early Cretaceous avian lineages, … diversity for these two
dominant clades of Mesozoic birds. … , significance tests for branches and clades in the Early …