A crown-group galliform bird from the Middle Eocene Bridger Formation of Wyoming

Palaeontology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1269-1280

  Gulas Wroblewski, Bonnie E ^a   Wroblewski, Anton F J ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

'Landfowl'; Cladistics; Eocene; Galliformes; Phylogeny; Wyoming

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLADISTICS; EOCENE; NEW RECORD; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

AMITABHA; AMITABHA URBSINTERDICTENSIS; AVES; GALLIFORMES; INCISURA; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; NEORNITHES; PAVO; PHASIANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344543124     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0031-0239.2003.00340.x     Document Type: Article

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