Paleornithology

Paläornithologie (Greek: palaios = old, ornis = bird, logos = word) is the branch of Palaeozoology, which deals with the fossil birds.

Although there are a number of palaeontological and biological sections that deal with paläornithologischen issues and finds birds were formerly in recent years in the public interest, the term is rarely used.

The International Trade Association for Paläornithologie is the Society of Avian Palaeontology and Evolution ( SAPE ).

  • 4.1 Standard Works
  • 4.2 Proceedings
  • 4.3 Books, Monographs and edited volumes on the origin of birds and birds of the Mesozoic
  • 4.4 Books and monographs on Cenozoic birds
  • 4.5 Important Review article

Questions of Paläornithologie

The following topics were in recent years the subject paläornithologischer research:

  • Origin of birds / ancestry of so-called non-avian dinosaurs
  • Origin of bird flight
  • Emergence of brood care and mating behavior in birds
  • Radiation and phylogeny of birds in the Cretaceous
  • Extinction and survival of groups of birds at the Cretaceous - Tertiary boundary
  • Origin and relationships of modern bird orders
  • Radiation in the Tertiary
  • Causes of flightlessness in birds
  • Avifaunae various important fossil sites, for example, the Messel Pit ( Middle Eocene ), the Phopshorite of Quercy ( Eocene to Oligocene ), the London Clay (Lower Eocene ), the Green River Formation (Lower Eocene ), the Jehol Group ( Lower Cretaceous )
  • The study of the late Quaternary avifauna.

Important extinct Vogeltaxa

Extinct bird groups of the Mesozoic

  • Basal birds: Family Archaeopterygidae ( ancient birds ), Rahonavis, Jeholornis, Sapeornis, family Confuciusornithidae
  • Infra class Ornithothoraces: Order Enantiornithes, Patagopteryx, Vorona, Hesperornithiformes order, Order Ichthyornithiformes

In Cenozoic extinct bird groups

  • Infra class Ornithothoraces:
  • Division Palaeognathae: Order Lithiornithiformes, family Aepyornithidae ( elephant birds), Family Dinornithidae ( Moa )
  • Division Neognathae:

Known Paläornithologen

  • Josep Antoni Alcover
  • Herculano Marcos Ferraz de Alvarenga
  • Charles William Andrews
  • Oscar Arredondo
  • Philip Ashmole
  • Zbigniew M. Bocheński
  • Zygmunt Bocheński
  • Pierce Brodkorb
  • Robert M. Chandler
  • Sankar Chatterjee
  • Anthony Cheke
  • Luis M. Chiappe
  • Joel Cracraft
  • Charles Walter De Vis
  • Gareth Dyke
  • Andrzej Elżanowski
  • Robert Alexander Falla
  • Alan Feduccia
  • Karl Heinz Fischer
  • Ursula B. Göhlich
  • Gerhard Heilmann
  • Richard N. Holdaway
  • Peter Houde
  • Hildegarde Howard
  • Julian Pender Hume
  • Helen Frances James
  • Eugén Kessler
  • Jeremy Kirchman
  • Yevgeny Nikolayevich Kurochkin ( Kurochkin )
  • Kálmán Lambrecht
  • Bradley C. Livezey
  • Albrecht Manegold
  • Othniel Charles Marsh
  • Larry Martin
  • Gerald Mayr
  • Alphonse Milne -Edwards
  • Alden Holmes Miller
  • Loye Miller
  • Jiří Mlíkovský
  • Cécile Mourer - Chauviré
  • Mark Norell
  • Storrs Lovejoy Olson
  • Richard Owen
  • Stefan Peters
  • Harald Pieper
  • Juan Carlos Rando
  • Ron Scarlett
  • David William Steadman
  • William Elgin Swinton
  • Alan Tennyson
  • Teresa Tomek
  • Gerard Frederick van Tets
  • Patricia Vickers - Rich
  • Cyril Alexander Walker
  • Alexander Wetmore
  • Lawrence M. Witmer
  • Trevor H. Worthy
  • Zhou Zhonghe
  • Alan C. Ziegler
  • Richard Zusi
Iberomesornis Adaptive Radiation Phylogenetics Green-River-Formation Archaeopteryx Confuciusornis Hesperornithes Ichthyornis Alphonse Milne-Edwards Patricia Vickers-Rich Cyril Walker (paleontologist) Lawrence Witmer Digital Object Identifier
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