| Inopinaves Temporal range: Late Cretaceous–Recent | |
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| Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) and Telluraves. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Superorder: | Neoaves |
| Clade: | Inopinaves Prum et al., 2015 |
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Inopinaves is a clade of neoavian birds recovered in a compressive genomic systematic study using nearly 200 species in 2015; it contains the clades Opisthocomiformes (Hoatzin) and Telluraves (core landbirds); the study shows that the Hoatzin diverge from other birds 64 million years ago.[1] Previous studies have placed the Hoatzin in different parts of the bird family tree, though these studies seem to support that it is a very derived bird that reverted to or retains some plesiomorphic traits, but is an ancient species as previously thought.[2][3][4]
See also[]
- Gruae for an alternative hypothesis on the placement of the Hoatzin
References[]
- ^ Prum, R. O. et al. A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing. Nature (2015). doi:10.1038/nature15697
- ^ Fain, Matthew G.; Houde, Peter (2004). "Parallel radiations in the primary clades of birds" (PDF). Evolution. 58 (11): 2558–2573. PMID 15612298. doi:10.1554/04-235. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
- ^ Hackett, S.J. et al. (2008) A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History. Science, 320(5884):1763–1768.
- ^ Jarvis, E.D. et al. (2014) Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. Science, 346(6215):1320-1331.
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