TY - CHAP
T1 - Theropod Diversity and the Refinement of Avian Characteristics
AU - Makovicky, Peter J.
AU - Zanno, Lindsay E.
PY - 2011/4/20
Y1 - 2011/4/20
KW - Archaeopteryx, and discovery of first specimens - evidence of avian evolution in fossil record, focal point for research
KW - Birds within the Saurischia, or "lizard-hipped" branch of dinosaur diversity - than the Ornithischia, the "bird-hipped" branch
KW - Birds, representing the most speciose - widespread clade of amniotes, unique locomotory and physiological adaptations
KW - Cladistic methodology, establishing - testing proposing evolutionary relationships, conceptual framework for deciphering origin and evolutionary history of birds
KW - Deep evolutionary history of modern birds
KW - Dinosaurian heritage of birds, that birds are archosaurs - closest living relatives to crocodilians
KW - Evolutionary trend toward increased brain sizes - continuing within avian lineage, modern birds with larger encephalization quotient (EQ) values than nonavian theropods
KW - Huxley (1868), evolutionary relationships - between birds and nonavian theropods, shared traits, as three principal weight-bearing toes in the foot
KW - Theropod diversity - and refinement of avian characteristics
KW - Theropods, exclusive of basal coelophysoid radiation - the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic, into two major lineages, Ceratosauria and Tetanurae
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U2 - 10.1002/9781119990475.ch1
DO - 10.1002/9781119990475.ch1
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84859968291
SN - 9780470656662
SP - 9
EP - 29
BT - Living Dinosaurs
PB - John Wiley and Sons
ER -