A tiny barbet-like bird from the lower oligocene of Germany: The smallest species and earliest substantial fossil record of the Pici (woodpeckers and allies)

Auk

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1055-1063

  Mayr, Gerald ^a  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fossil birds; Oligocene; Pici; Piciformes; Rupelramphastoides knopfi gen. et. sp. nov.

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FOSSIL RECORD; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; OLIGOCENE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

AVES; MYA; PASSERIFORMES; PICI; PICIDAE; PICIFORMES; RAMPHASTIDAE;

EID: 28744443211     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2005)122[1055:ATBBFT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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