‘Big bang’ for tertiary birds?

By A. Feduccia. 2003

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Recent Advances in the (Molecular) Phylogeny of Vertebrates (2003, background): “Adaptation to flight led to a rapid radiation and the origin of the orders of modern birds during the Late Cretaceous (Cooper & Penny 1997; but see Feduccia 1996, 2003), a period in which the fossil record of modern birds is relatively poor (Feduccia 1996).”
The effects of locomotion on the structural characteristics of avian limb bones (2008, background): “Ancient flightless lineage (Rhea americana): Rheas are large-bodied ratites that represent a lineage of birds that have been flightless for a long period of time: the lineage leading to modern ratites probably lost flight in the Late Cretaceous (Cracraft, 2001) or the Early Tertiary (Feduccia, 2003)”
VERTEBRATE DISPERSAL OF SEED PLANTS THROUGH TIME (2004, background): “However, research in the past 20 years has demonstrated a greater diversity of Mesozoic birds and the existence of a whole clade (Enantiornithines) that became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous (Chiappe & Dyke 2002, Feduccia 2003).”
Calibrating molecular estimates of substitution rates and divergence times in birds (2007, background): “For example, some groups of birds have conspicuously poor fossil records, such as those evolving on the southern continents ( Feduccia 2003 ).”
Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and fossils (2006, unknown): “However, Graur & Martin (2004) have argued convincingly that this estimate is not reliable, and nor are any of the calibration points that are based on it.”
Mesozoic birds of China—a synoptic review (2007, background): “Equally, tree living had resulted in the reversed hallux typical of birds, a large eye and expanded brain, which had contributed to the explosive development of birds in the Cenozoic ( Feduccia, 2003 ).”
Fast Coalescent-Based Computation of Local Branch Support from Quartet Frequencies (2016, background): “Feduccia (2003) gave rise to very short branches, but quantifying the exact lengths remains difficult because of gene tree error.”
The evolutionary radiation of modern birds (Neornithes): reconciling molecules, morphology and the fossil record (2004, methodology): “Largely on the basis of the accumulated Eocene fossil record, early interpretations of the pattern of diversification (Wyles et al., 1983; Feduccia, 1995) suggested that the radiation of modern birds occurred in the earliest Tertiary (Feduccia, 2003).”
Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation (2014, background): “However, the Neoaves, the most diverse avian clade, later underwent a rapid global expansion and radiation after a mass extinction event ~66 million years ago near the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary (4, 5).”