Old World Fossil Record of Modern-Type Hummingbirds

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5672, 2004, Pages 861-864

  Mayr, Gerald ^a  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BONE; MORPHOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

FOSSILS; HUMMINGBIRDS;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

BIRD; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; FOSSIL; OLIGOCENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON;

AMERICAS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BONE AND BONES; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FLOWERS; FOSSILS; GERMANY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

AVES; TROCHILIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2442451638     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1096856     Document Type: Article

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29. I thank R. Böttcher (SMNS) for the loan of the fossil specimens, O. Vogel for the excellent preparation of the referred specimen, and S. Tränkner for taking the photographs. I further thank P. Houde and three anonymous referees for comments on the manuscript.