Litusilvanae

Litusilvanae Temporal range: Paleocene (Danian) to recent 61.7–0  Ma [1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Possible Late Cretaceous origin based on molecular clock [2]
Pigeon guillemot (Cepphus columba)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Aquaterraves
Clade:	Litusilvanae Wu et al., 2024
Clades
Gruimorphae Strisores

Litusilvanae is a proposed clade of birds, position as the sister clade to Aequorlitornithes. ^[2] This clade comprises Gruimorphae (orders Charadriiformes and Gruiformes) and Strisores (the order Caprimulgiformes and the clade Vanescaves). While different lines of evidence from molecular, morphology and the fossil record has found support in the clades Gruimorphae ^{[3] [4] [5]} and Strisores ^{[6] [7] [8]} Wu et al. (2024) was the first to find support in such a novel sister group relationship between these two taxa. ^[2]

References

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2. Wu, S.; Rheindt, F.E.; Zhang, J.; Wang, J.; Zhang, L.; Quan, C.; Zhiheng, L.; Wang, M.; Wu, F.; Qu, Y; Edwards, S.V.; Zhou, Z.; Liu, L. (2024). "Genomes, fossils, and the concurrent rise of modern birds and flowering plants in the Late Cretaceous". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121 (8) e2319696121. Bibcode:2024PNAS..12119696W. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2319696121 . PMC   10895254 . PMID   38346181.
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5. Kuhl, H.; Frankl-Vilches, C.; Bakker, A.; Mayr, G.; Nikolaus, G.; Boerno, S. T.; Klages, S.; Timmermann, B.; Gahr, M. (2020). "An unbiased molecular approach using 3'UTRs resolves the avian family-level tree of life". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38: 108–127. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msaa191 . PMC   7783168 . PMID   32781465.
6. Prum, Richard O.; Berv, Jacob S.; Dornberg, Alex; Field, Daniel J.; Townsend, Jeffrey P.; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Lemmon, Alan R. (2015). "A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing". Nature. 526 (7574): 569–573. Bibcode:2015Natur.526..569P. doi:10.1038/nature15697. PMID   26444237. S2CID   205246158.
7. White, Noor D.; Braun, Michael J. (December 2019). "Extracting phylogenetic signal from phylogenomic data: Higher-level relationships of the nightbirds (Strisores)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 141 106611. Bibcode:2019MolPE.14106611W. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106611 . PMID   31520780. S2CID   202573449.
8. Chen, Albert; White, Noor D.; Benson, Roger B. J.; Braun, Michael J.; Field, Daniel J. (2019). "Total-evidence framework reveals complex morphological evolution in nightbirds (Strisores)". Diversity. 11 (9): 143. doi: 10.3390/d11090143 .