• Thumbnail for Bird
    Bird (redirect from Neornithes)
    Neornithes into the Holarctic and Paleotropics. On the other hand, the occurrence of Asteriornis in the Northern Hemisphere suggest that Neornithes dispersed...
    235 KB (23,454 words) - 21:08, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Crown group
    of a species and all its extant or extinct descendants. For example, Neornithes (birds) can be defined as a crown group, which includes the most recent...
    24 KB (2,760 words) - 04:00, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ornithurae
    Neornithes was originally proposed as a replacement for Ornithurae by Gadow in 1892 and 1893. Gauthier and de Queiroz, therefore, consider Neornithes...
    7 KB (519 words) - 11:48, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charadriiformes
    within the late Cretaceous, alongside the other dinosaurs. Much of the Neornithes' fossil record around the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event is made...
    23 KB (2,263 words) - 02:21, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Asteriornis
    Asteriornis is one of the oldest-known birds irrefutably belonging to the group Neornithes, which encompasses all modern birds. It possesses characteristics of both...
    18 KB (2,078 words) - 04:28, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neoaves
    Neoaves is a clade that consists of all modern birds (Neornithes or Aves) with the exception of Palaeognathae (ratites and kin) and Galloanserae (ducks...
    38 KB (1,339 words) - 06:17, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Palaeognathae
    infraclasses of birds, the other being Neognathae, both of which form Neornithes. Palaeognathae contains five extant branches of flightless lineages (plus...
    46 KB (5,323 words) - 04:58, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Evolution of birds
    domesticus), and either Archaeopteryx, or some prehistoric species closer to Neornithes (to avoid the problems caused by the unclear relationships of Archaeopteryx...
    28 KB (3,240 words) - 13:21, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of fossil bird genera
    or phoenicopteriform Neornithes incerta sedis Kurochkin 1995 (Nemegt Late Cretaceous of S Mongolia) - phalacrocoracid? Neornithes incerta sedis AMNH FR...
    232 KB (18,990 words) - 16:49, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amniote
    Subclass Ichthyornithes (toothed, but otherwise modern birds) Subclass Neornithes (all living birds) Class Mammalia (mammals) Subclass Prototheria (Monotremata...
    48 KB (3,794 words) - 03:11, 20 July 2024