New fossil material with a redescription of the extinct Condor Gymnogpys varonai (Arredondo, 1971) from the Quaternary of Cuba (Aves: Vulturidae)

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-37

  Suárez, William ^a   Emslie, Steven D ^b  

^a Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Cuba   (Cuba)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; QUATERNARY;

CUBA;

AVES; CATHARTIDAE; GYMNOGYPS CALIFORNIANUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 17744401813     PISSN: 0006324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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