{"id":1849,"date":"2019-10-28T14:11:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T13:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2019-11-08T15:54:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:54:29","slug":"the-fossil-record-of-modern-birds-from-the-type-maastrichtian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/?p=1849","title":{"rendered":"The fossil record of modern birds from the type-Maastrichtian"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"764\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/brown-skull-1024x764.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1850\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/brown-skull-1024x764.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/brown-skull-300x224.png 300w, http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/brown-skull-768x573.png 768w, http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/brown-skull-940x701.png 940w, http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/brown-skull-620x462.png 620w, http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/brown-skull-195x145.png 195w, http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/brown-skull.png 1722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The Late Cretaceous toothed bird&nbsp;<em>Ichthyornis dispar<\/em> (Field et al., 2018)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/?p=1856\">Dr. Daniel Field<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p> <a href=\"mailto:djf70@cam.ac.uk\">djf70@cam.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esc.cam.ac.uk\/directory\/daniel-field\">University of Cambridge<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Saturday, 30th of November 2019 (13:45-14:15) at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/?p=1639\">international symposium on Chalk &amp; Flint<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our understanding of avian evolution&nbsp;has progressed tremendously in the last decade, and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction has emerged as a key factor responsible for stimulating the modern bird radiation. To better understand the pattern and timing of early avian evolution, fossils from the Late Cretaceous and earliest Cenozoic are of paramount importance. Nonetheless, fossils of modern birds from these time intervals are virtually unknown. <\/p>\n<p>In his presentation at the international symposium on Chalk &amp; Flint, Daniel will discuss the unique potential of the type Maastrichtian of The Netherlands and Belgium for shedding light on the early evolutionary history of modern birds, and provide recommendations for local collectors to may aid in the future identification of avian fossils in the latest Cretaceous.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"835\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/birds-on-fire-835x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1852\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/birds-on-fire-835x1024.png 835w, http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/birds-on-fire-245x300.png 245w, http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/birds-on-fire-768x942.png 768w, http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/birds-on-fire-620x760.png 620w, http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/birds-on-fire-159x195.png 159w, http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/birds-on-fire.png 858w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/><figcaption>Artist reconstruction of birds surviving the K-Pg boundary catastrophe (by Philip Krzeminski). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Daniel Field djf70@cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge Saturday, 30th of November 2019 (13:45-14:15) at the&nbsp;international symposium on Chalk &amp; Flint Our understanding of avian evolution&nbsp;has progressed tremendously in the last decade, and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction has emerged as a key factor responsible for stimulating the modern bird radiation. To better understand the pattern and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paleobiologischekring.org\/homepage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}