Avian higher level biogeography: Southern Hemispheric origins or Southern Hemispheric relicts?

The early Eocene birds of the Messel fossil site: a 48 million-year-old bird community adds a temporal perspective to the evolution of tropical avifaunas

(2016) Gerald Mayr   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Constraints on the collision and the pre-collision tectonic configuration between India and Asia from detrital geochronology, thermochronology, and geochemistry studies in the lower Indus basin, Pakistan

(2015) Guangsheng Zhuang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

A new time tree reveals Earth historys imprint on the evolution of modern birds

(2015) S. Claramunt et al.   Science Advances

New specimens of the early Eocene bird Vastanavis and the interrelationships of stem group Psittaciformes

(2013) G. Mayr et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Fossil evidence of wing shape in a stem relative of swifts and hummingbirds (Aves, Pan-Apodiformes)

(2013) D. T. Ksepka et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A new stem parrot from the Green River Formation and the complex evolution of the grasping foot in Pan-Psittaciformes

(2012) Daniel T. Ksepka et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Evolution of terrestrial birds in three continents: biogeography and parallel radiations

(2011) Per G. P. Ericson   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Two-phase extinction of “Southern Hemispheric” birds in the Cenozoic of Europe and the origin of the Neotropic avifauna

(2011) Gerald Mayr   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

AnElaphrocnemus-Like Landbird and Other Avian Remains from the Late Paleocene of Brazil

(2010) Gerald Mayr et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

(2008) S. J. Hackett et al.   SCIENCE