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Palaeobiology of Giant Flightless Birds
Explores reconstruction of the palaeobiology of various groups of extinct giant flightless birds, from the Holocene to the Cretaceous
Delphine Angst (Author), Eric Buffetaut (Author)
9781785481369, Elsevier Science
Hardback, published 16 November 2017
296 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.6 kg
"This book is an important contribution to these wonderful questions and a must for anyone with a fascination for this anachronistic body plan." --Quarterly Review of Biology
The fossil record of giant flightless birds extends back to the Late Cretaceous, more than 70 million years ago, but our understanding of these extinct birds is still incomplete. This is partly because the number of specimens available is sometimes limited, but also because widely different approaches have been used to study them, with sometimes contradictory results. This book summarizes the current knowledge of the paleobiology of seven groups of giant flightless birds: Dinornithiformes, Aepyornithiformes, Dromornithidae, Phorusrhacidae, Brontornithidae, Gastornithidae and Gargantuavis. The first chapter presents the global diversity of these birds and reviews the tools and methods used to study their paleobiology. Chapters 2 to 8 are each dedicated to one of the seven groups of extinct birds. Finally, a conclusion offers a global synthesis of the information presented in the book in an attempt to define a common evolutionary model.
1. General Introduction 2. Dinornithiformes 3. Aepyornithiformes 4. Dromornithidae 5. Phorusrhacidae 6. Brontornithidae 7. Gastornithidae 8. Gargantuavis
Subject Areas: Evolution [PSAJ]
