A field guide to mesozoic birds and other winged dinosaurs
182 Family Brodavidae Martin & al. 2012 Superfamily Hesperornithoidea Shufeldt 1903 Family Baptornithidae AOU 1910 Family Hesperornithidae Marsh 1872 Subfamily Asiahesperornithinae Nessov & Prizemlin 1991 Subfamily Hesperornithinae Marsh 1872 Subclass Ichthyornithes Marsh 1873b Family Ichthyornithidae Marsh 1873a Subclass Neornithes Gadow 1893 Superorder Palaeognathae Pycraft 1900 Superorder Neognathae Pycraft 1900 Order Anseriformes Wagler 1831 Superfamily Anatoidea Vigors 1825 Family Presbyornithidae Wetmore 1926 Order Galliformes Temminck 1820 Order Gaviiformes Wetmore & Miller 1926 Order Pelecaniformes Sharpe 1891 Family Torotigidae Brodkorb1963 Order Charadriiformes Huxley 1867 Family Cimolopterygidae Brodkorb 1963 Order Cariamiformes Fürbringer 1888
Glossary • Alula: Vaned, pennaceous feathers extending from the alular digit, also “bastard wing” • Alular digit: The first digit finger of the hand • Arboreal: Tree-dwelling • Basal: A species or group positioned near the base of its parent clade’s family tree • Barb: Thin filament branching from the rachis and forming the vane of a feather • Barbule: Small filaments branching from the barbs, adhering to adjacent barbs via hooklets • Bastard wing: See alula • Clade: A natural group, consisting of two specified sub-groups, their concestor, and all of its descendants • Closed-vaned feather: See vaned feather • Concestor: The most recent common ancestor of two given species or clades • Contour feather: Vaned feathers covering the body • Covert: Small vaned, pennaceous feathers covering the bases of remiges or rectrices • Crown: Feathers covering the top of the skull, especially when forming a raised crest • Derived: A species or group positioned far from the base of its parent clade’s family tree • Digit: “Finger” of the hand (manual digit) or “toe” of the foot (pedal digit) • Down: Feather with a short or thin rachis and soft barbs lacking barbules • Fan-tail: Rectrices arranged in a fan attaching to a pygostyle with rectrical bulb • Frond-tail: Rectrices arranged in pairs along the length of a tail with discrete vertebrae • Hallux: Fouth digit of the foot, usually reversed (backward-pointed and opposable) in perching species • Hindwing: Wing-like structure formed by vaned feathers attached in a planar arrangement to the tarsus • Hooklet: Microscopic hook-shaped filament holding barbs and barbules together in the vane of a feather • Humerus: Bone of the upper arm, to which tertial feather ligaments anchor • Major digit: The second (usually largest) finger of the hand • Manus: Hand including the metacarpals and digits • Minor digit: The third finger of the hand, often reduced and/or fused to the major digit • Open-vaned feather: Pennaceous feathers lacking barbules, but in which the barbs are large and relatively stiff, forming a loosely planar surface • Propatagium: Skin and ligaments connecting the wrist to the shoulder in a wing • Pygostyle: Fused tail vertebrae, anchoring the rectrical bulb and rectrices 183
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Family Brodavidae Martin & al. 2012<br />
Superfamily Hesperornithoidea Shufeldt 1903<br />
Family Bap<strong>to</strong>rnithidae AOU 1910<br />
Family Hesperornithidae Marsh 1872<br />
Subfamily Asiahesperornithinae Nessov & Prizemlin 1991<br />
Subfamily Hesperornithinae Marsh 1872<br />
Subclass Ichthyornithes Marsh 1873b<br />
Family Ichthyornithidae Marsh 1873a<br />
Subclass Neornithes Gadow 1893<br />
Superorder Palaeognathae Pycraft 1900<br />
Superorder Neognathae Pycraft 1900<br />
Order Anseriformes Wagler 1831<br />
Superfamily Ana<strong>to</strong>idea Vigors 1825<br />
Family Presbyornithidae Wetmore 1926<br />
Order Galliformes Temminck 1820<br />
Order Gaviiformes Wetmore & Miller 1926<br />
Order Pelecaniformes Sharpe 1891<br />
Family Torotigidae Brodkorb1963<br />
Order Charadriiformes Huxley 1867<br />
Family Cimolopterygidae Brodkorb 1963<br />
Order Cariamiformes Fürbringer 1888
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