This article is about bird taxonomy. For the pottery shape, see Carinate.
Bréchet, keel sternum
Carinatae is the group of all birds and their extinct relatives to possess a keel, or "carina", on the underside of the breastbone used to anchor large flight muscles.
Carinatae is the group of all birds and their extinct relatives to possess a keel, or "carina", on the underside of the breastbone used to anchor large...
monophyletic. Clade 1. P. sect. Meconella, Meconopsis Clade 2. P. sect. Carinatae, P. sect. Meconidium, P. sect. Oxytona, P. sect. Papaver, P. sect. Pilosa...
their keeled sternum (breastbone), unlike the ratites, they are known as carinatae. Worldwide; 250 species Family †Sylviornithidae Suborder Megapodii Family...
flight ability and placing it with modern birds in the advanced group Carinatae. Unlike earlier avialans such as the enantiornithines, the species appears...
credited with this insight. Huxley still placed the tinamous with the Carinatae of Merrem because of their keeled sterna, and thought that they were most...
Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) Volume V: Carinatæ (Passeriformes completed). Vol. 5. London: Taylor and Francis. Restall...
birds into Ratitae (ratites or running birds, with a flat sternum) and Carinatae (carinates or flying birds, with a keeled sternum), which formed part...
collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume V: Carinatæ (Passeriformes completed). London: Taylor and Francis. Sharpe, R. Bowdler...
Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II: Carinatæ (Charadriiformes–Strigiformes). London: Taylor and Francis. p. 100. (Arabic...
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