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In contrast to those of most other neornithines, the carpometacarpi of cariamaens and hoatzins possess a particularly broad, strongly bowed third metacarpal.
Giant hoatzins of doom Darren Naish 2006
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In contrast to those of most other neornithines, the carpometacarpi of cariamaens and hoatzins possess a particularly broad, strongly bowed third metacarpal.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Their terrestrial, cursorial adaptations would then be late-evolved novelties, and not primitive features inherited from earlier neornithines.
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin Darren Naish 2006
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Their terrestrial, cursorial adaptations would then be late-evolved novelties, and not primitive features inherited from earlier neornithines.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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And Yanornis isn't an enantiornithine - it's a member of a small clade of Cretaceous birds that are more closely related to neornithines than enantiornithines are
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Darren Naish none@example.com 2010
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Digit II claws are rarer but are present in some neornithines (like some ratites, juvenile waterfowl and flamingos), so might also be primitive for the clade.
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