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Paleognathae
English: Paleognaths.
Clades: Aves; Animals.
Taxonomy
Paleognathae are the oldest divergence within the modern bird group, Neornithes. The rest, the majority are in the Neognathae.
Orders
Struthioniformes: ostriches.
Rheiformes: rheas.
Casuariiformes: emus and cassowaries.
Apterygiformes: kiwi.
Dinornithiformes moa.
Aepyornithiformes: elephant birds.
Literature
Cloutier, A., T.B. Sackton, P. Grayson, M. Clamp, A.J. Baker, and S.V. Edwards. 2019. Whole-genome analyses resolve the phylogeny of flightless birds (Palaeognathae) in the presence of an empirical anomaly zone. Systematic Biology 68: 937–955. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syz019
du Toit, C.J., A. Chinsamy, and S.J. Cunningham. 2020. Cretaceous origins of the vibrotactile bill-tip organ in birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20202322. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2322
Mayr, G. 2009. Paleogene Fossil Birds. Springer, Berlin. 262 pp.
Mayr, G. 2015. The middle Eocene European "ratite" Palaeotis (Aves, Palaeognathae) restudied once more. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89: 503–514. doi: 10.1007/s12542-014-0248-y
Mayr, G. 2017. Avian Evolution: The Fossil Record of Birds and its Paleobiological Significance. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester. 306 pp.
Mayr, G. 2019. Hindlimb morphology of Palaeotis suggests palaeognathous affinities of the Geranoididae and other "crane-like" birds from the Eocene of the Northern Hemisphere. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64: 669–678. doi: 10.4202/app.00650.2019
Nesbitt, S.J. and J.A. Clarke. 2016. The anatomy and taxonomy of the exquisitely preserved Green River Formation (early Eocene) lithornithids (Aves) and the relationships of Lithornithidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 406: 1–91.
Yonezawa, T., T. Segawa, H. Mori, P.F. Campos, Y. Hongoh, H. Endo, A. Akiyoshi, N. Kohno, S. Nishida, J. Wu, H. Jin, J. Adachi, H. Kishino, K. Kurokawa, Y. Nogi, H. Tanabe, H. Mukoyama, K. Yoshida, A. Rasoamiaramanana, S. Yamagishi, Y. Hayashi, A. Yoshida, H. Koike, F. Akishinonomiya, E. Willerslev, and M. Hasegawa. 2017. Phylogenomics and morphology of extinct paleognaths reveal the origin and evolution of the ratites. Current Biology 27: 68–77. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.10.029