Giant ground birds at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: Extinction or survival?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 356, Issue , 2002, Pages 303-306

  Buffetaut, Eric ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOCENE; PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

BIRDS;

BIRD; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; MASS EXTINCTION; PHYLOGENETICS; SURVIVAL;

FRANCE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0012461745     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2356-6.303     Document Type: Article

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