RE: Origin of Birds Research Project

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>]

No fully up-to-date (2013) review, but the Theropoda and Aves chapters of The 
Complete Dinosaur 2nd edition give some really recent
material, up through extant birds.

Chiappe's Glorified Dinosaurs is good for many features, but misses out on the 
diversity of living birds and the later discoveries
of the many small archaeopterygid-grade maniraptorans.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Email: tholtz@umd.edu   Phone: 301-405-4084
Office: Centreville 1216                        
Senior Lecturer, Vertebrate Paleontology
Dept. of Geology, University of Maryland
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/
Fax: 301-314-9661               

Faculty Director, Science & Global Change Program, College Park Scholars
http://www.geol.umd.edu/sgc
Fax: 301-314-9843

Mailing Address:        Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                        Department of Geology
                        Building 237, Room 1117
                        University of Maryland
                        College Park, MD 20742 USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Asher Elbein
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 4:29 PM
> To: Dinosaur Mailing List
> Subject: Origin of Birds Research Project
> 
> Hey, all. I have a favor to ask.
> 
> I'm working on a half hour presentation for a class about the origin and 
> divergence of birds, and I was wondering where I could
start
> looking for information on the subject. Are there any general taxonomic 
> papers or books on early bird diversity and evolution that
I
> should look at? The only thing I currently have on my shelf is an Alan 
> Fedducia book I bought for a few bucks at a garage sale,
and I'm
> fairly sure that can be safely ignored.
> 
> I'd like to focus both on Cretaceous maniraptorans and the evolution of 
> modern bird families. Any help would be deeply
appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Asher Elbein