'Big bang' for tertiary birds?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 172-176

  Feduccia, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; EVOLUTION; TERTIARY;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037376872     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00017-X     Document Type: Review

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