Avifaunal changes revealed in quaternary deposits near Waitomo Caves, North Island, New Zealand

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 293-325

  Worthy, Trevor H ^a   Swabey, Stephen E J ^b  

^a Palaeofaunal Surveys   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Faunal change; Flo Cave; Fossil avifaunas; Gardners Gut Cave; Holocene; New Zealand; Palaeovegetation; Pleistocene; Radiocarbon dates; Waitomo Caves

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING;

NEW ZEALAND;

ANAS CHLOROTIS; ANOMALOPTERYX DIDIFORMIS; ANTHUS NOVAESEELANDIAE; CALLAEAS WILSONI; CNEMIORNIS GRACILIS; COTURNIX NOVAEZELANDIAE; EURYANAS FINSCHI; EURYAPTERYX CURTUS; FULICA PRISCA; GALLIRALLUS AUSTRALIS; PACHYORNIS MAPPINI; PETROICA LONGIPES; PHILESTURNUS RUFUSATER; PORPHYRIO MANTELLI; STRIGOPS HABROPTILUS;

EID: 0036312014     PISSN: 03036758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2002.9517696     Document Type: Article

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