Climatic shifts drove major contractions in avian latitudinal distributions throughout the Cenozoic
Many higher level avian clades are restricted to Earth’s lower latitudes, leading to historical biogeographic reconstructions favoring a Gondwanan origin of crown birds and numerous deep subclades. However, several such “tropical-restricted” clades (TRCs) are represented by stem-lineage fossils well...
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National Academy of Sciences
2019
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