Riversleigh birds as palaeoenvironmental indicators

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 241-246

  Boles, Walter E ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birds; Palaeoecology; Riversleigh

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FOSSIL BIRD; MIOCENE; PALAEOECOLOGY; PALAEOENVIRONEMENT; PALAEOENVIRONMENT;

AUSTRALIA, QUEENSLAND, RIVERSLEIGH;

EID: 0031422072     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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