Complex sentence: For long the Neognathae were ranked as a superorder and not subdivided any further; attempts to do so, for example in the "Conspectus" of Charles Lucien Bonaparte, were never accepted even by a significant majority of ornithologists.
Split into simpler sentences: For long the Neognathae were ranked as a superorder and not subdivided any further. Attempts to do so, for example in the "Conspectus" of Charles Lucien Bonaparte, were never accepted even by a significant majority of ornithologists.