Klara Widrig

PhD University of Cambridge

MSc University of Cambridge

BSc McGill University

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Klara-Widrig

I am interested in major transitions in vertebrate evolution, particularly the nonavian dinosaur to bird transition and the origin of flight. My research as a Buck Fellow focuses on musculoskeletal reconstruction of the wings of early birds to help determine what their flight capabilities were.

Publications

*Klara Widrig, Guillermo Navalón, Daniel J. Field. 2024. Paleoneurology of stem palaeognaths clarifies the plesiomorphic condition of the crown bird central nervous system. Journal of Morphology 285, e21710. 

Daniel J. Field, Juan Benito, Sarah Werning , Albert Chen, Pei-Chen Kuo, Abi Crane, Klara Widrig, Daniel T. Ksepka, John W.M. Jagt. 2024. Remarkable insights intomodern bird origins from the Maastrichtian type area (north-east Belgium, south-east Netherlands). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 103, e15. 

*Klara Widrig, Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar,  Daniel J. Field. 2023. 3D atlas of tinamou (Neornithes: Tinamidae) pectoral morphology: Implications for reconstructing the ancestral neornithine flight apparatus, Journal of Anatomy 00, 1-29.

Juan Benito, Pei-Chen Kuo, Klara Widrig, John Jagt, Daniel J. Field. 2022. Latest Cretaceous ornithurine supports a neognathous origin of crown birds, Nature 612, 100-105. 

*Klara Widrig, Daniel J. Field. 2022. The Evolution and Fossil Record of Palaeognathous Birds (Neornithes: Palaeognathae), Diversity 14(2):105

Diana Boudreau, Vincent L. Santucci, Klara Widrig, Mark Nebel, Anne Miller, Ronnie Colvin, Kim Besom, Colleen Hyde. 2022. Chapter 12: Grand Canyon National Park Paleontological Resources Management and Protection, Grand Canyon National Park: Centennial paleontological resource inventory