RE: Birds (was Re: You could lead a sauropod to water ...)

[fredericus ruhe <fredruhe@xs4all.nl>]

Dear Toby

Here are some references for the bird fossil record

1.      
Pierce Brodkorb, 1963
Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 1 (Archaeopterygiformes through Ardeiformes)
Bulletin of the Florida.State Museum, Biological Sciences 7 (4): 179-293

2.      
Pierce Brodkorb, 1964
Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 2 (Anseriformes through Galliformes)
Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 8: 195-335

3.      
Pierce Brodkorb, 1967
Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 3 (Ralliformes, Ichthyornithiformes,
Charadriiformes)
Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 11: 99-220

4.      
Pierce Brodkorb, 1971
Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 4 (Columbiformes through Piciformes)
Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 15: 163-266

5.      
Pierce Brodkorb, 1978
Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 5 (Passeriformes)
Bull. Fla. State Mus., Biol. Sci. 23: 139-228

6.      
Lowell Dingus, 1997
The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds
W. H. Freeman and Company, New York

7.      
Alan Feduccia, 1996 / 1999
The Origin and Evolution of Birds
Yale University Press / second edition

8.      
Storrs L. Olson, 1985
The Fossil Record of Birds
In Avian Biology, vol. 8, ed D.S. Farner, J.R. King and K.C. Parkes. pg. 79-252.
New York: Academic Press

Only Brodkorb gives the complete fossil record, but of course only complete
to 1978.
Olson gives a lot of taxonomic changes
Dingus  anf Feduccia are more talking about bird evolution

Fred Ruhe


At 13:50 17-10-1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Actually, that brings up a related question I'd had.  In a few months, I'm 
>going to be finished covering dinosaur groups for DinoData (the Vertebrate 
>Notes ought to be up & running at http://www.dinodata.net in 1-2 days, but I 
>keep finding missing blocks of data) and will be looking at birds.  Is there 
>anything for birds equivalent to Janvier's "Early Vertebrates" or Currie & 
>Padian's "Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs"?  There's a  Feduccia text that gets 
>mentioned here now and again.  What would y'all recommend?
>
>  --Toby White
>
>PS: sorry about the last post.  It wasn't meant to go to the list at all.
>
>On Sunday, October 17, 1999 1:33 PM, dbensen [SMTP:dbensen@gotnet.net] wrote:
>>
>> Yes!  We have to find something real to talk about quickly or we're going to
>> have a
>> lot of disgruntled persons on our hands.
>>
>> Um, um (searching frantically for a topic), okay.  What about the evolution 
>of
>> birds
>> after the Jurassic.  I remember seeing something about ducks and cranes in
>> passing
>> and then of cource there is Hesperornis and Ichthyornis, but what about other
>> radiations?  How did pterosaurs take the competition.
>>
>> Dan
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