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| - On Home-Earth, Apodimorphaea includes a number of species, including swifts and hummingbirds. In Spec, however, this clade is somewhat more restricted, relegated almost entirely to the Americas. Until the middle of the Cenozoic, it seems, Spec's p-apodimorphs enjoyed a more global spread of influence, the most specious of their clades being the p-apodiforms (the swifts familiar to Home-Earth). Eocene p-apodiforms have been discovered in Spec's France, and clearly occupied the flying-insectivore niche that is today dominated by the twitavian mistriders. Perhaps because of competition from the mistriders, the p-apodiforms declined throughout the Pliocene, vanishing some 10 million years before the present day.
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abstract
| - On Home-Earth, Apodimorphaea includes a number of species, including swifts and hummingbirds. In Spec, however, this clade is somewhat more restricted, relegated almost entirely to the Americas. Until the middle of the Cenozoic, it seems, Spec's p-apodimorphs enjoyed a more global spread of influence, the most specious of their clades being the p-apodiforms (the swifts familiar to Home-Earth). Eocene p-apodiforms have been discovered in Spec's France, and clearly occupied the flying-insectivore niche that is today dominated by the twitavian mistriders. Perhaps because of competition from the mistriders, the p-apodiforms declined throughout the Pliocene, vanishing some 10 million years before the present day. However, a New World branch of the p-apodimorph family tree produced a second radiation of this clade and has managed to gain a second chance for survival. This radiation produced the clades Agilifugiiformes and p-Trochiliformes, which quickly spread throughout the Americas. The swoops (Agilifugiiformes) and hummingbirds (p-Trochiliformes) evolved in South America, isolated from the mistrider invasion, and have since spread across the Americas and even into Eurasia.
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