A late Tertiary woodcock from Menorca, Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean

Condor

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 909-915

  Seguí, Bartomeu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Late Tertiary; Menorca; Paleontology; Scolopax carmesinae; Western Mediterranean; Woodcock

Indexed keywords

SCOLOPACINAE; SCOLOPAX; SCOLOPAX CARMESINAE; SCOLOPAX HUTCHENSI; SCOLOPAX MINOR; SCOLOPAX RUSTICOLA;

EID: 0032730514     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370088     Document Type: Article

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