A new fossil furnariid from the pleistocene of Uruguay, with remarks on nasal type, cranial kinetics, and relationships of the extinct genus Pseudoseisuropsis

Condor

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 114-127

  Claramunt, Santiago ^a,b   Rinderknecht, Andrés ^a  

^a Museo Nacional de Historia Natural   (Uruguay)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fossil; Furnariidae; Phylogeny; Pleistocene; Pseudoseisuropsis cuelloi; Skull morphology; Uruguay

Indexed keywords

FURNARIIDAE; PSEUDOSEISURA; PSEUDOSEISUROPSIS; PSEUDOSEISUROPSIS CUELLOI; PSEUDOSEISUROPSIS NEHUEN;

EID: 13844299033     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7499     Document Type: Article

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