Aquatic birds from the upper Cretaceous (lower Campanian) of Sweden and the biology and distribution of hesperornithiforms

Palaeontology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1321-1329

  Rees, Jan ^a   Lindgren, Johan ^b,c  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baptornis; Birds; Campanian; Cretaceous; Hesperornis; Hesperornithiformes; Sweden

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CRETACEOUS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

AVES; HESPERORNIS; HESPERORNITHIFORMES;

EID: 30744467734     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00507.x     Document Type: Article

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