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Max Carl Anton Fürbringer (January 30, 1846 – March 6, 1920) was a German anatomist, known for his anatomical investigations of vertebrates and especially for his studies in ornithology on avian morphology and classification. He was responsible for the first major phylogenetic ordering of bird groups based on a large scale study on a ...
Fürbringer – also occurring in the German diaspora variants Fuerbringer or Furbringer – is a surname of German origin. Its literal meaning is witness [ 1 ] or more pejoratively tinged accusator [ 2 ] or slanderer [ 2 ] (from Middle High German vürbringer , an agent noun derived from mhg.
The group was named by Fürbringer in 1900 to include all autarchoglossans closer to Varanus and Anguis than Scincus. These lizards, along with iguanians and snakes, constitute the proposed "venom clade" Toxicofera of all venomous reptiles. [1]
Recent genetic data show that ground hornbills and Bycanistes form a clade outside the rest of the hornbill lineage. [6] They are thought to represent an early African lineage, while the rest of Bucerotiformes evolved in Asia.
Galbuliformes Fürbringer, 1888 Nine families of largely arboreal birds make up the order Piciformes / ˈ p ɪ s ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / , the best-known of them being the Picidae , which includes the woodpeckers and close relatives.
The family Archaeopterygidae is the only family in the order Archaeopterygiformes, which was coined by Max Fürbringer in 1888 to contain Archaeopterygidae and genus Archaeopteryx. [10] A formal phylogenetic definition for Archaeopterygidae was given by Xu and colleagues in 2011: the clade comprising all animals closer to Archaeopteryx than to ...
Jones & Furbringer was an architectural firm founded in 1904 by the partnership of Walk Claridge Jones, Sr. and Max H. Furbringer. [1] [2] It designed a number of buildings that are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [3]
Paul Walther Fürbringer (7 August 1849 – 21 July 1930) was a German physician and chemist born in Delitzsch, in the Prussian Province of Saxony. He was a brother to anatomist Max Fürbringer (1846-1920).