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considered a
primitive hemiprocnid. This
would suggest that the
major apodiform lineages diverged shortly after the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary. However...
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Aegialornis is a
genus of
prehistoric apodiform birds. It
formed a
distinct family, the Aegialornithidae, and was in some ways
intermediate between modern...
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respective to
Apodiformes (hummingbirds, swifts, and treeswifts), with
apodiform birds nesting deeply within caprimulgiformes and a
sister taxon to the...
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species of
Eocypselus are
currently known.
Compared with
modern apodiforms, it was a
better percher and had
shorter wing feathers, and
might have...
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sulid Lapillavis, a
possible trogonid relative Cypseloramphus, a
basal apodiform The
Messelasturidae (Messelastur and Tynskya),
carnivorous relatives of...
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similar name for the
group Daedalornithes has been used for the owlet-night-
apodiform clade,
there is a
difference between the two
names with
Apodimorphae defined...
- a high
taxonomic and
ecological diversity of
early Eocene swift-like
apodiform birds". Ibis (advance
online publication). doi:10.1111/ibi.13323. Wang...
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Apodiformes in
hummingbirds and swifts. "Reappraisal of Eocypselus—a stem
group apodiform from the
early Eocene of
Northern Europe" (PDF). www.senckenberg.de. Retrieved...
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Primapus is an
extinct genus of
apodiform bird from the
Early Eocene of the
United Kingdom. Its
fossils were
found in the
London Clay,
which was deposited...
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derived from the Gr****
words "a pous",
meaning "without foot".
While apodiforms do in fact have feet, they are
quite small and
their legs are
short and...
