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Publisher's Note: Mistake in the image

Posted by neilbrock on 10 Aug 2012 at 12:40 GMT

According to this scenario of avian evolution, the Neornithes did not appear until the latest Cretaceous, and then diversified rapidly in the Cenozoic, whereas all basal bird groups died out at or before the K/Pg boundary. Black lines represent lineages present in the fossil record, red lines represent ghost lineages inferred from phylogenetic analysis.
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0039056#pone-0039056-g002

The lead author would like to indicate a mistake in this figure: The Galliforme linneage and Anseriforme linneage are incorrectly labelled; it is the Anseriformes which possess and observed (black) linneage extending into the Cretaceous. The labels 'Galliformes' and 'Anseriformes' should be swapped.

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