Late‐Pleistocene avifaunas from Cape Wanbrow, Otago, South Island, New Zealand

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 427-485

  Worthy, T H ^a   Grant Mackie, J A ^b  

^a Palaeofaunal Surveys   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cape Wanbrow; Fossil avifaunas; Hillgrove Formation; Late Pleistocene; New Zealand

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; PALEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; STRATIGRAPHY; TAXONOMY;

NEW ZEALAND;

AVES; CHENONETTA; CNEMIORNIS; COTURNIX; ELEPHANTOPUS; EMEUS CRASSUS; EURYAPTERYX; FULICA; GALLINULA; HARPAGORNIS; PACHYORNIS; PACHYORNIS ELEPHANTOPUS; PHOCIDAE; PORPHYRIO; SCINCIDAE; SPHENODON PUNCTATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038421024     PISSN: 03036758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2003.9517738     Document Type: Article

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