Common developmental origins of beak shapes and evolution in theropods

Authors: Garland, Kathleen L.S. ^{1, 5, ∗}, Hay, Eleanor M. ^{1, 2}, Field, Daniel J. ³, Evans, Alistair R. ^{1, 4, ∗∗}

Source: In iScience March 2025

Taphonomic damage obfuscates interpretation of the retroarticular region of the Asteriornis mandible

Authors: Crane, Abi, Benito, Juan, Chen, Albert, Musser, Grace, Torres, Christopher R., Clarke, Julia A., Lautenschlager, Stephan, Ksepka, Daniel T., Field, Daniel J.

Source: In Geobios March 2024

3D atlas of tinamou (Neornithes: Tinamidae) pectoral morphology: Implications for reconstructing the ancestral neornithine flight apparatus

Authors: Widrig, Klara E., Bhullar, Bhart‐Anjan S., Field, Daniel J.

Source: Journal of anatomy. 243(5):729-757

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Comparative anatomy of the passerine carpometacarpus helps illuminate the early fossil record of crown Passeriformes

Authors: Steell, Elizabeth M., Nguyen, Jacqueline M. T., Benson, Roger B. J., Field, Daniel J.

Source: Journal of anatomy. 242(3):495-509

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Disentangling the avian altricial-precocial spectrum : Quantitative assessment of developmental mode, phylogenetic signal, and dimensionality

Authors: Ducatez, Simon, Field, Daniel J.

Source: Evolution, 2021 Nov 01. 75(11), 2717-2735.

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The influence of soft tissue volume on estimates of skeletal pneumaticity: implications for fossil archosaurs.

Authors: Burton, Maria Grace, Benito, Juan, Mellor, Kirsty, Smith, Emily, Martin-Silverstone, Elizabeth, O'Connor, Patrick, Field, Daniel J.

Source: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences; 2/27/2025, Vol. 380 Issue 1920, p1-14, 14p

Subject Terms: RESPIRATORY organs, DINOSAURS, FOSSILS, TISSUES, BIOLOGY

Morphological Criteria for Staging Near‐Hatching Embryos of the Domesticated Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) and Swan Goose (Anser cygnoides).

Authors: Arnaout, Bassel, Brzezinski, Kaylen, Steventon, Benjamin, Field, Daniel J.

Source: Journal of Morphology; Feb2025, Vol. 286 Issue 2, p1-12, 12p

Macroevolutionary dynamics of dentition in Mesozoic birds reveal no long-term selection towards tooth loss

Authors: Brocklehurst, Neil, Field, Daniel J.

Source: In iScience 19 March 2021 24(3)

Middle Ear Mechanics in the Barn Owl.

Authors: Peacock, John, Benson, Monica A., Field, Daniel J., Spellman, Garth M.

Source: Journal of Morphology; Jan2025, Vol. 286 Issue 1, p1-10, 10p

Ecological selectivity and the evolution of mammalian substrate preference across the K–Pg boundary

Authors: Hughes, Jonathan J., Berv, Jacob S., Chester, Stephen G. B., Sargis, Eric J., Field, Daniel J.

Source: Ecology and evolution. 11(21):14540-14554

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Cretaceous bird from Brazil informs the evolution of the avian skull and brain.

Authors: Chiappe, Luis M., Navalón, Guillermo, Martinelli, Agustín G., Carvalho, Ismar de Souza, Miloni Santucci, Rodrigo, Wu, Yun-Hsin, Field, Daniel J.

Source: Nature; Nov2024, Vol. 635 Issue 8038, p376-381, 6p

Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution

Authors: Ksepka, Daniel T., Balanoff, Amy M., Smith, N. Adam, Bever, Gabriel S., Bhullar, Bhart-Anjan S., Bourdon, Estelle, Braun, Edward L., Burleigh, J. Gordon, Clarke, Julia A., Colbert, Matthew W., Corfield, Jeremy R., Degrange, Federico J., De Pietri, Vanesa L., Early, Catherine M., Field, Daniel J., Gignac, Paul M., Gold, Maria Eugenia Leone, Kimball, Rebecca T., Kawabe, Soichiro, Lefebvre, Louis, Marugán-Lobón, Jesús, Mongle, Carrie S., Morhardt, Ashley, Norell, Mark A., Ridgely, Ryan C., Rothman, Ryan S., Scofield, R. Paul, Tambussi, Claudia P., Torres, Christopher R., van Tuinen, Marcel, Walsh, Stig A., Watanabe, Akinobu, Witmer, Lawrence M., Wright, Alexandra K., Zanno, Lindsay E., Jarvis, Erich D., Smaers, Jeroen B.

Source: In Current Biology 8 June 2020 30(11):2026-2036

Climatic shifts drove major contractions in avian latitudinal distributions throughout the Cenozoic

Authors: Saupe, Erin E., Farnsworth, Alexander, Lunt, Daniel J., Sagoo, Navjit, Pham, Karen V., Field, Daniel J.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 Jun . 116(26), 12895-12900.

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Preliminary paleoecological insights from the Pliocene avifauna of Kanapoi, Kenya: Implications for the ecology of Australopithecus anamensis

Authors: Field, Daniel J.

Source: In Journal of Human Evolution March 2020 140

The influence of fossils in macroevolutionary analyses of 3D geometric morphometric data: A case study of galloanseran quadrates

Authors: Kuo, Pei‐Chen, Benson, Roger B. J., Field, Daniel J.

Source: Journal of morphology. 284(6)

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The biogeography of coelurosaurian theropods and its impact on their evolutionary history

Authors: Ding, Anyang, Pittman, Michael, Upchurch, Paul, O Connor, Jingmai, Field, Daniel J., Xu, Xing

Source: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 440:117-158

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The fossil record of Mesozoic and Paleocene pennaraptorans

Authors: Pittman, Michael, O Connor, Jingmai, Tse, Edison, Makovicky, Peter, Field, Daniel J., Ma, Waisum, Turner, Alan H., Norell, Mark A., Pei, Rui, Xu, Xing

Source: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 440:37-96

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Pennaraptoran systematics

Authors: Pittman, Michael, O Connor, Jingmai, Field, Daniel J., Turner, Alan H., Ma, Waisum, Makovicky, Peter, Xu, Xing

Source: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 440:7-36

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Timing the extant avian radiation: the rise of modern birds, and the importance of modeling molecular rate variation

Authors: Field, Daniel J., Berv, Jacob S., Hsiang, Allison Y., Lanfear, Robert, Landis, Michael J., Dornburg, Alex

Source: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 440:159-182

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Methods of studying early theropod flight

Authors: Pittman, Michael, Heers, Ashley M., Serrano, Francisco J., Field, Daniel J., Habib, Michael B., Dececchi, T. Alexander, Kaye, Thomas G., Larsson, Hans C. E.

Source: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 440:277-294

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