The Paleogene fossil record of birds in Europe

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 515-542

  Mayr, Gerald ^a  

^a DZMB Deutsches Zentrum F Mar B   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aves; Biogeography; Diversification of neornithine taxa; Europe; Fossil record; Paleogene

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLADISTICS; CRETACEOUS; DUCKS AND GEESE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EOCENE; EUROPE; FALCONIFORMES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL; GALLIFORMES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; OLIGOCENE; OWL; PALEOCENE; PALEOGENE; PARROT; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; REVIEW; SONGBIRD; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GEOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PALEONTOLOGY;

ANATIDAE; AVES; COLUMBIFORMES; FALCONIFORMES; GALLIFORMES; NEORNITHES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PSITTACIDAE; STRIGIFORMES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOSSILS; GEOLOGY; MALE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 33644816748     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1464793105006779     Document Type: Review

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