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Mesozoic Birds

Mesozoic Birds is a paleontological construct referring to the earliest evolutionary radiation of avian dinosaurs, distinguished by their phylogenetic position as members of the clade Avialae that originated and diversified during the Mesozoic Era, from the Late Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous.

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176

The origin and evolution of birds

Choice Reviews Online · 1997 · 621 citations

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Diverse feather shape evolution enabled by coupling anisotropic signalling modules with self-organizing branching programme

Ang Li, Seth Figueroa, Ting‐Xin Jiang et al. · Nature Communications · 2017 · 455 citations · Full text

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Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs

Journal of Paleontology · 2003 · 322 citations · Full text

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The deep divergences of neornithine birds: a phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters

Gérald Mayr, Julia A. Clarke · Cladistics · 2003 · 263 citations

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The Origin and Evolution of Birds

DNN, Alan Feduccia · Colonial Waterbirds · 1997 · 225 citations

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Authors

334

  1. LM
    Luis M. Chiappe

    Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, United States

    31 publications · 1.7K citations

    24

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  2. ZZ
    Zhonghe Zhou

    Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, China

    24 publications · 1.3K citations

    19

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  3. GJ
    Gareth J. Dyke

    University College Dublin, Ireland

    20 publications · 1.2K citations

    18

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  4. JK
    Jingmai K. O’Connor

    Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, China

    21 publications · 1.1K citations

    16

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  5. MW
    Min Wang

    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    15 publications · 630 citations

    14

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1–5 of 334

Institutions

201

  1. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology

    Beijing, China

    29 h-index

    88 publications

    4.4K citations

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    22 h-index

    72 publications

    3.7K citations

  3. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

    Los Angeles, United States

    22 h-index

    54 publications

    2.7K citations

  4. American Museum of Natural History

    New York, United States

    16 h-index

    22 publications

    2.1K citations

  5. University College Dublin

    Dublin, Ireland

    15 h-index

    18 publications

    870 citations

  6. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Madrid, Spain

    11 h-index

    19 publications

    690 citations

  7. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    11 h-index

    19 publications

    3K citations

  8. University of Kansas

    Lawrence, United States

    9 h-index

    13 publications

    669 citations

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  1. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

    12 publications · 478 citations

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  2. PLoS ONE

    10 publications · 771 citations

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  3. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

    JVP · 10 publications · 533 citations

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  4. Nature Communications

    7 publications · 1.1K citations

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  5. Scientific Reports

    7 publications · 192 citations

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