Re: Extinction

["T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 Alien4240@aol.com wrote:

> This is a really basic question, but what is a neornithines? I can't find it 
> in any of my books. Thanks.

Neornithes is the most exclusive clade which contains all living birds.
Members are referred to as neornitheans or neornithines. (Although,
really, "neornithine" should be reserved for the subfamily of _Neornis_,
if there is a _Neornis_ or one ever gets named. Same problem with
"enantiornithine", which is usually used to refer to a member of
Enantiornithes even though there is a taxon called Enantiornithinae.)

For more: <http://dinosauricon.com/taxa/neornithes.html>

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