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  1. The unexpected survival of an ancient lineage of anseriform birds into the Neogene of Australia: the youngest record of Presbyornithidae

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, February 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri

  2. Wading a lost southern connection: Miocene fossils from New Zealand reveal a new lineage of shorebirds (Charadriiformes) linking Gondwanan avifaunas

    Article • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri

  3. Next-generation paleornithology: Technological and methodological advances allow new insights into the evolutionary and ecological histories of living birds

    Article • Ornithology, April 2015, American Ornithologists' Union

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri

  4. New cranial material of the earliest filter feeding flamingo Harrisonavis croizeti (Aves, Phoenicopteridae) informs the evolution of the highly specialized filter feeding apparatus

    Article • Organisms Diversity & Evolution, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri

  5. A Plains‐wanderer (Pedionomidae) that did not wander plains: a new species from the Oligocene of South Australia

    Article • Ibis, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri

  6. The enigmaticIbidopodiafrom the early Miocene of France—the first Neogene record of Cariamiformes (Aves) in Europe

    Article • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri

  7. The phylogenetic relationships of the Early Miocene stork Grallavis edwardsi, with comments on the interrelationships of living Ciconiidae (Aves)

    Article • Zoologica Scripta, August 2014, Wiley

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri

  8. Reappraisal of early Miocene rails (Aves, Rallidae) from central France: diversity and character evolution

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, May 2014, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri

  9. The earliest European record of a Stone-curlew (Charadriiformes, Burhinidae) from the late Oligocene of France

    Article • Journal of Ornithology, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri

  10. Earliest and first Northern Hemispheric hoatzin fossils substantiate Old World origin of a “Neotropic endemic”

    Article • The Science of Nature, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri

  11. Interrelationships of the Threskiornithidae and the phylogenetic position of the Miocene ibis ‘Plegadis’paganusfrom the Saint-Gérand-le-Puy area in central France

    Article • Ibis, June 2013, Wiley

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri

  12. A goose-sized anseriform bird from the late Oligocene of France: the youngest record and largest species of Romainvilliinae

    Article • PalZ, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri

  13. An assessment of the diversity of early Miocene Scolopaci (Aves, Charadriiformes) from Saint-Gérand-le-Puy (Allier, France)

    Article • Palaeontology, November 2012, Wiley

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri

  14. A new species of woodpecker (Aves; Picidae) from the early Miocene of Saulcet (Allier, France)

    Article • Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri

  15. A revision of the Lari (Aves, Charadriiformes) from the early Miocene of Saint-Gérand-le-Puy (Allier, France)

    Article • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, July 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri

  16. New Skeleton from the Early Oligocene of Germany Indicates a Stem-Group Position of Diomedeoidid Birds

    Article • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, March 2010, Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)

    Dr Vanesa L De Pietri