Pangalloanserae
Appearance
Pangalloanserae Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Present
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Infraclass: | Neognathae |
Clade: | Pangalloanserae Gauthier and de Queiroz, 2001 |
Subgroups | |
Pangalloanserae is a clade of birds defined in a 2001 study by Jacques Gauthier and Kevin de Queiroz as "most inclusive clade containing Galloanserae but not Neoaves". It contains crown Galloanserae as well as all stem-galloanserans.[1][2]
References
- ^ Gauthier, Jacques; de Queiroz, Kevin (2001). "Feathered Dinosaurs, Flying Dinosaurs, Crown Dinosaurs and the Names "Aves"".
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(help) - ^ Field, Daniel J.; Benito, Juan; Chen, Albert; Jagt, John W. M.; Ksepka, Daniel T. (March 2020). "Late Cretaceous neornithine from Europe illuminates the origins of crown birds". Nature. 579 (7799): 397–401. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2096-0. ISSN 1476-4687.