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Lowi-Merri Talia M., Demuth Oliver E., Benito Juan, Field Daniel J., Benson Roger B. J., Claramunt Santiago and Evans David C. 2023Reconstructing locomotor ecology of extinct avialans: a case study of Ichthyornis comparing sternum morphology and skeletal proportionsProc. R. Soc. B.2902022202020222020
http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2020

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Eric Buffetaut (2023)

The Missing Late Pleistocene Ostrich Femur from Zhoukoudian (China): New Information Provided by a Rediscovered Old Cast

Diversity 15(2): 265

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020265

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/2/265

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Daniel T. Ksepka, Daniel J. Field, Tracy A. Heath, Walker Pett, Daniel B. Thomas, Simone Giovanardi & Alan J.D. Tennyson (2023)
Largest-known fossil penguin provides insight into the early evolution of sphenisciform body size and flipper anatomy
Journal of Paleontology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2022.88
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/abs/largestknown-fossil-penguin-provides-insight-into-the-early-evolution-of-sphenisciform-body-size-and-flipper-anatomy/8D4A78B2CA0A716134F8E60169A633FD

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Peter Houde, Meig Dickson and Dakota Camarena (2023)
Basal Anseriformes from the Early Paleogene of North America and Europe
Diversity 15(2):, 233
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020233
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/2/233

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Figueiredo, S., de Carvalho, C.N., Cachão, M. et al. A marine bird (sulidae, Aves) from the Langhian (middle Miocene) of Penedo beach (Setúbal Peninsula—SW Portugal) and its paleoenvironmental context. J Iber Geol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41513-022-00203-5

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Li, Z., Wang, M., Stidham, T.A. et al. Decoupling the skull and skeleton in a Cretaceous bird with unique appendicular morphologies. Nat Ecol Evol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01921-w

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Wang, R., Hu, D., Zhang, M. et al. A new confuciusornithid bird with a secondary epiphyseal ossification reveals phylogenetic changes in confuciusornithid flight mode. Commun Biol 5, 1398 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04316-6

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He Xingjian, Zhao Tao, Hu Jianfang, Li Xin, Wang Xiaoli, Zheng Xiaoting, Pan Yanhong. 2022.
Taphonomic properties of the foot claw sheath from an Early Cretaceous bird specimen Confuciusornis sanctus,
Cretaceous Research: 105453

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105453.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667122003172)

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Pittman, M., Bell, P.R., Miller, C.V. et al. Exceptional preservation and foot structure reveal ecological transitions and lifestyles of early theropod flyers. Nat Commun 13, 7684 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35039-1

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Benito J, Chen A, Wilson LE, Bhullar BS, Burnham D, Field DJ. 2022. Forty new specimens of Ichthyornis provide unprecedented insight into the postcranial morphology of crownward stem group birds. PeerJ 10:e13919 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13919

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Gerardo Álvarez Herrera, Federico Agnolín, Sebastián Rozadilla, Gastón E. Lo Coco, Makoto Manabe, Takanobu Tsuihiji, Fernando E. Novas,
New enantiornithine bird from the the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of southern Patagonia, Argentina,
Cretaceous Research:
105452

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105452
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667122003160)

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Min Wang Thomas A Stidham Jingmai K O'Connor Zhonghe Zhou (2022) Insight into the evolutionary assemblage of cranial kinesis from a Cretaceous bird eLife 11:e81337.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.81337

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Benito, J., Kuo, PC., Widrig, K.E. et al. Cretaceous ornithurine supports a neognathous crown bird ancestor. Nature 612, 100–105 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05445-y

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Mayr, G., Kitchener, A.C. New species from the early Eocene London Clay suggest an undetected early Eocene diversity of the Leptosomiformes, an avian clade that includes a living fossil from Madagascar. Palaeobio Palaeoenv (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-022-00560-0