Early Cretaceous Iteravis enters the LRT as a new last common ancestor of crown birds
Iteravis huchzermeyeri
(Zhou, O’Connor and Wang 2014 Ju et al. 2021; Early Cretaceous; IVPP V18958, Figs. 1, 2) nests between Hongshanornis and crown birds as their new last common ancestor in the large reptile tree (LRT, 2021 taxa; graphic Fig. 3).
Zhou, O’Connor and Wang 2014
nested Gansus and Iteravis close to one another due to taxon exclusion. Here the two are distinct and derived from Hongshanornis. Traditional workers keep trying to include unrelated geese and chickens at the base of crown birds, where they don’t belong.
Descendants of Early Cretaceous Iteravis evolved
to become both paleognath (e.g. Megapodius) and neognath (e.g. Nahmavis, Fig. 4) birds.
Nahmavis is a late survivor of that Early Cretaceous radiation
of crown birds known from the famous Messel Formation of the Early Eocene. It was originally considered close to the origin of gruiformes and charadriformes (Musser and Clarke 2020). Here it nests with the Kori bustard, Ardeotis, one of the largest extant flying birds in Africa at 1.3m long.
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