The late Pleistocene fossil avian remains from Grotta dei Fiori, Carbonia (SW Sardinia, Italy)

Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 163-169

  Pavia, Marco ^a   Bedetti, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aves; Italy; Pleistocene; Sardinia; Systematic

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; MORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHY; TAXONOMY;

ITALY;

AQUILA; AVES; CICONIA; CICONIA NIGRA; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA; CORVUS; CORVUS CORAX; CORVUS CORONE; CORVUS FRUGILEGUS; EMBERIZA; EMBERIZA CIRLUS; EMBERIZA SCHOENICLUS; GALLIFORMES; GYPAETUS BARBATUS; MAMMALIA; PYRRHOCORAX GRACULUS; PYRRHOCORAX PYRRHOCORAX; STRIGIFORMES; TURDUS; TURDUS VISCIVORUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0041624092     PISSN: 03757633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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