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New Zealand has no indigenous mammalia, but in their place great cursorial birds with but rudimentary wings. Exactly the same thing is found by geology in its tertiary and post-tertiary strata: nowhere a mammal, but gigantic birds with rudimentary wings, down to the dinornis, which probably died out in man's time.
Rudolf Schmid - The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

If the interpretation of the gigantic foot-steps in the colored sandstone of North America, as belonging to the cursorial birds, is correct, the first appearance of birds falls in the time between the reptilia and mammalia; otherwise the first mammalia would have appeared before the first birds.
Rudolf Schmid - The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
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