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Evolution of body mass in the Pan-Alcidae (Aves, Charadriiformes): the effects of combining neontological and paleontological data
N. Adam Smith


Paleobiology
Copyright © 2015 The Paleontological Society. All rights reserved.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2015.24 (About DOI), 19 pages. Published online: 22 October 2015

http://journals.cambridge.org/actio...=online&aid=10009825&fileId=S009483731500024X

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Brian Switek: The Greatest Auk In: National Geographic 6 November 2015

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/06/paleo-profile-the-greatest-auk/

I did not realozed it was out already, but:

Free pdf: http://paleosmith.org/pdf/Smith2015BodyMass.pdf

Enjoy,

Fred

DiGiacomo, Alexandria A., "A Phylogenetic Analysis of Extinct and Extant Pan-Alcidae (Charadriiformes: Aves)" (2018). Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects. 128.

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Peter Kovalik said:

DiGiacomo, Alexandria A., "A Phylogenetic Analysis of Extinct and Extant Pan-Alcidae (Charadriiformes: Aves)" (2018). Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects. 128.

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A good find!

I just had a quick glance at it and saw in the Literature Cited on page 36 a mistake:

Hildegarde, H. 1982. Fossil birds from Tertiary marine beds at Oceanside, San Diego County, California, with descriptions of two new species of the genera Uria and Cepphus (Aves: Alcidae). Contributions in Science 341:1-15.

Of course this must the great and famous Hildegarde Howard, the first female paleornithologist, a pupil of Loyd Holmes Miller, who worked in California in the last century. Alexandria should not make this mistake.

But I first have to read this thesis, but at first glance I like it.

Fred