A North American stem turaco, and the complex biogeographic history of modern birds

Conceptual and analytical worldviews shape differences about global avian biogeography

(2017) Joel Cracraft et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Big-time insights from a tiny bird fossil

(2017) Daniel J. Field   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Genomic Signature of an Avian Lilliput Effect across the K-Pg Extinction

(2017) Jacob S. Berv et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The evolution of giant flightless birds and novel phylogenetic relationships for extinct fowl (Aves, Galloanseres)

(2017) Trevor H. Worthy et al.   Royal Society Open Science

The Anatomy and Taxonomy of the Exquisitely Preserved Green River Formation (Early Eocene) Lithornithids (Aves) and the Relationships of Lithornithidae

(2016) Sterling J. Nesbitt et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Avian Diversification Patterns across the K-Pg Boundary: Influence of Calibrations, Datasets, and Model Misspecification1

(2015) Daniel T. Ksepka et al.   ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN

The origin of snakes: revealing the ecology, behavior, and evolutionary history of early snakes using genomics, phenomics, and the fossil record

(2015) Allison Y Hsiang et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Extant-only comparative methods fail to recover the disparity preserved in the bird fossil record

(2015) Jonathan S. Mitchell   EVOLUTION

RASP (Reconstruct Ancestral State in Phylogenies): A tool for historical biogeography

(2015) Yan Yu et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2015) Richard O. Prum et al.   NATURE

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

(2015) K. J. Mitchell et al.   SCIENCE

The Dynamics of Incomplete Lineage Sorting across the Ancient Adaptive Radiation of Neoavian Birds

(2015) Alexander Suh et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

(2015) S. Claramunt et al.   Science Advances

Avian extinction at the end of the Cretaceous: Assessing the magnitude and subsequent explosive radiation

(2014) Alan Feduccia   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

The origins of crown group birds: molecules and fossils

(2014) Gerald Mayr   PALAEONTOLOGY

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

(2014) E. D. Jarvis et al.   SCIENCE

Turtle origins: insights from phylogenetic retrofitting and molecular scaffolds

(2013) M. S. Y. Lee   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A new species of Threskiornithidae-like bird (Aves, Ciconiiformes) from the Green River Formation (Eocene) of Wyoming

(2013) Nathan D. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

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

Another charadriiform-like bird from the lower Eocene of Denmark

(2013) S. Bertelli et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

A Phylogeny of Birds Based on Over 1,500 Loci Collected by Target Enrichment and High-Throughput Sequencing

(2013) John E. McCormack et al.   PLoS One

Skeletal Correlates for Body Mass Estimation in Modern and Fossil Flying Birds

(2013) Daniel J. Field et al.   PLoS One

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

Bayesian Analysis of Biogeography when the Number of Areas is Large

(2013) Michael J. Landis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The age of the crown group of passerine birds and its evolutionary significance – molecular calibrations versus the fossil record

(2013) Gerald Mayr   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma

(2012) M. Seton et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

INTEGRATING FOSSILS WITH MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES IMPROVES INFERENCE OF TRAIT EVOLUTION

(2012) Graham J. Slater et al.   EVOLUTION

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Synthesizing and databasing fossil calibrations: divergence dating and beyond

(2011) D. T. Ksepka et al.   Biology Letters

Out of Africa: Fossils shed light on the origin of the hoatzin, an iconic Neotropic bird

(2011) Gerald Mayr et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Podargiform Affinities of the Enigmatic Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus and the Early Diversification of Strisores (“Caprimulgiformes” + Apodiformes)

(2011) Sterling J. Nesbitt et al.   PLoS One

Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary

(2011) N. R. Longrich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Divergence Time Estimation Using Fossils as Terminal Taxa and the Origins of Lissamphibia

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

(2011) James F. Parham et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

Eocene clocks agree: Coeval 40Ar/39Ar, U-Pb, and astronomical ages from the Green River Formation

(2010) M. Elliot Smith et al.   GEOLOGY

Primobucco mcgrewi(Aves: Coracii) from the Eocene Green River Formation: new anatomical data from the earliest constrained record of stem rollers

(2010) Daniel T. Ksepka et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

S-DIVA (Statistical Dispersal-Vicariance Analysis): A tool for inferring biogeographic histories

(2010) Yan Yu et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

New fossil mousebird (Aves: Coliiformes) with feather preservation provides insight into the ecological diversity of an Eocene North American avifauna

(2010) DANIEL T. KSEPKA et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The Madagascan “Cuckoo-Roller” (Aves: Leptosomidae) is Not a Roller — Notes on the Phylogenetic Affinities and Evolutionary History of a “Living Fossil”

(2009) Gerald Mayr   ACTA ORNITHOLOGICA

Affinities ofPalaeospiza bellaand the Phylogeny and Biogeography of Mousebirds (Coliiformes)

(2009) Daniel T. Ksepka et al.   AUK

Broken gears in the avian molecular clock: new phylogenetic analyses support stem galliform status forGallinuloides wyomingensisand rallid affinities forAmitabha urbsinterdictensis

(2009) Daniel T. Ksepka   CLADISTICS

A new lizard assemblage from the earliest eocene (Zone Wa0) of the bighorn basin, wyoming, USA: Biogeography during the warmest interval of the cenozoic

(2009) Krister T. Smith   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Continental drift, paleoclimatology, and the evolution and biogeography of birds

(2009) Joel Cracraft   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Combined phylogenetic analysis of a new North American fossil species confirms widespread Eocene distribution for stem rollers (Aves, Coracii)

(2009) JULIA A. CLARKE et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

THE FOSSIL RECORD AND EVOLUTION OF MOUSEBIRDS (AVES: COLIIFORMES)

(2008) NIKITA V. ZELENKOV et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

(2008) S. J. Hackett et al.   SCIENCE