Daniel Field

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Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

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Professor Daniel Field is a faculty member in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. His research primarily focuses on vertebrate palaeontology, exploring topics such as taphonomy, phylogenetics, and the evolution of avian anatomy. Recent publications include studies on the mechanics of the avian skull, soft tissue influence on skeletal pneumaticity, and morphological criteria for staging avian embryos.

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Late Cretaceous neornithine from Europe and the ancestral crown bird skull

Open Date: 2019-10-01

Close Date: 2020-10-01

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Modernization, diversification, and domination: Macroevolutionary origins of living bird diversity

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Dissertation Research: Origin of the modern avian locomotor system across a neglected evolutionary interval: insight from new methods and new fossils

Open Date: 2015-07-01

Close Date: 2016-06-30

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Elucidating the higher-order relationships of modern birds: a novel combined approach incorporating microRNA sequences and paleontological data

Open Date: 2014-04-01

Close Date: 2015-03-31

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Elucidating the higher-order relationships of modern birds: a novel combined approach incorporating microRNA sequences and paleontological data

Open Date: 2013-04-01

Close Date: 2014-03-31

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Steven Portugal

Reader in Animal Behaviour and Physiology

Royal Holloway, University of London

UNITED KINGDOM

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Roger Benson

University of Oxford

UNITED KINGDOM

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Tracy Heath

Professor-in-Charge

Iowa State University

UNITED STATES

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Santiago Claramunt

Assistant Professor

University of Toronto

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Elizabeth Steell

Sarah Woodhead Research Fellow in Earth Science

Griffith college

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Albert Chen

University of Cambridge

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Abi H. Crane

University of Southampton

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Taphonomic damage obfuscates interpretation of the retroarticular region of the Asteriornis mandible

Revealing patterns of homoplasy in discrete phylogenetic datasets with a cross-comparable index

The influence of soft tissue volume on estimates of skeletal pneumaticity: implications for fossil archosaurs

Morphological Criteria for Staging Near‐Hatching Embryos of the Domesticated Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) and Swan Goose (Anser cygnoides)

Toward a Comprehensive Anatomical Matrix for Crown Birds: Phylogenetic Insights from the Pectoral Girdle and Forelimb Skeleton

Middle Ear Mechanics in the Barn Owl

Whence the birds: 200 years of dinosaurs, avian antecedents

Tactile bill-tip organs in seabirds suggest conservation of a deep avian symplesiomorphy

Cretaceous bird from Brazil informs the evolution of the avian skull and brain

Upper bill bending as an adaptation for nectar feeding in hummingbirds

Largest-known fossil penguin provides insight into the early evolution of sphenisciform body size and flipper anatomy

The influence of fossils in macroevolutionary analyses of 3D geometric morphometric data: A case study of galloanseran quadrates

Direct quantification of skeletal pneumaticity illuminates ecological drivers of a key avian trait

The selective drivers of allometry in sharks (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii)

Reconstructing locomotor ecology of extinct avialans: a case study of Ichthyornis comparing sternum morphology and skeletal proportions

Comparative anatomy of the passerine carpometacarpus helps illuminate the early fossil record of crown Passeriformes

Forty new specimens of Ichthyornis provide unprecedented insight into the postcranial morphology of crownward stem group birds

Cretaceous ornithurine supports a neognathous crown bird ancestor

Fossil basicranium clarifies the origin of the avian central nervous system and inner ear

Topology-Based Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Delicate Skeletal Fossil Remains and the Quantification of Their Taphonomic Deformation

Collaborators (7)

Steven Portugal

Roger Benson

Tracy Heath

Santiago Claramunt

Elizabeth Steell

Albert Chen

Abi H. Crane

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