-
initially believed to be a sea-duck and
possibly is an
ancestral Pelecaniform. The
pelecaniform lineages appear to have
originated around the end of the Cretaceous...
- The
Pelecanidae is a
family of
pelecaniform birds within the
Pelecani that
contains three genera: the
extinct Eopelec**** and Miopelec**** and the extant...
- "Ciconiiformes".
Based on
osteological evidence, the
suggestion of a
pelecaniform affinity was made in 1957 by
Patricia Cottam.
Microscopic analysis of...
- has been
variously described as some kind of
terrestrial penguin, a
pelecaniform, and a "very
large and
extremely weird land bird". The
shaft the tarsometatarsus...
- (1994). "Molecules vs.
morphology in
avian evolution: the case of the "
pelecaniform" birds". PNAS. 91 (21): 9861–65. Bibcode:1994PNAS...91.9861H. doi:10...
- in that order, or that the
plotopterids were not as
close to
other pelecaniforms as
generally ****umed,
which would necessitate splitting the traditional...
-
Gillian C.; Kennedy, Martyn; Penny,
David (2013). "Beyond phylogeny:
Pelecaniform and
ciconiiform birds, and long-term
niche stability".
Molecular Phylogenetics...
- Mikhailov,
Konstantin E. (1995). "Eggs****
structure in the
shoebill and
pelecaniform birds:
comparison with hamerkop, herons,
ibises and storks". Canadian...
-
interspecific variation in Pelec****. The Late
Eocene Protopelic**** may be a
pelecaniform or
suliform – or a
similar aquatic bird such as a
pseudotooth (Pelagornithidae)...
-
years ago, and that the
Cretaceous fossils represent ancestral sulids, "
pelecaniforms" or "higher waterbirds"; at
least the last
lineage is
generally believed...
