A remarkably complete skeleton from the London Clay provides insights into the morphology and diversity of early Eocene zygodactyl near-passerine birds

An unbiased molecular approach using 3’UTRs resolves the avian family-level tree of life

(2020) H Kuhl et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A new zygodactylid species indicates the persistence of stem passerines into the early Oligocene in North America

(2019) Tobin L. Hieronymus et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Oldest Finch-Beaked Birds Reveal Parallel Ecological Radiations in the Earliest Evolution of Passerines

(2019) Daniel T. Ksepka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Early Evolution of Modern Birds Structured by Global Forest Collapse at the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction

(2018) Daniel J. Field et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Systematics and phylogeny of the Zygodactylidae (Aves, Neognathae) with description of a new species from the early Eocene of Wyoming, USA

(2018) N. Adam Smith et al.   PeerJ

Early Paleocene landbird supports rapid phylogenetic and morphological diversification of crown birds after the K–Pg mass extinction

(2017) Daniel T. Ksepka et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

X-ray micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) of pyrite-permineralized fruits and seeds from the London Clay Formation (Ypresian) conserved in silicone oil: a critical evaluation

(2016) Margaret E. Collinson et al.   Botany

New species of Primozygodactylus from Messel and the ecomorphology and evolutionary significance of early Eocene zygodactylid birds (Aves, Zygodactylidae)

(2016) Gerald Mayr   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

(2015) Richard O. Prum et al.   NATURE

A reassessment of Eocene parrotlike fossils indicates a previously undetected radiation of zygodactyl stem group representatives of passerines (Passeriformes)

(2015) Gerald Mayr   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Eocene fossil is earliest evidence of flower-visiting by birds

(2014) G. Mayr et al.   Biology Letters

Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

(2014) E. D. Jarvis et al.   SCIENCE

Pumiliornis tessellatus Mayr, 1999 revisited — new data on the osteology and possible phylogenetic affinities of an enigmatic Middle Eocene bird

(2013) Gerald Mayr   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

Mesozoic retroposons reveal parrots as the closest living relatives of passerine birds

(2011) Alexander Suh et al.   Nature Communications

A well-preserved ‘charadriiform-like’ fossil bird from the Early Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark

(2010) SARA BERTELLI et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic avian taxonzygodactylusbased on new material from the early oligocene of France

(2008) Gerald Mayr   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

(2008) S. J. Hackett et al.   SCIENCE