A new early Pleistocene bird association from Pietrafitta (Perugia, Central Italy)

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 527-538

  Zucchetta, Gilda ^a   Gentil, Sergio ^a   Pavia, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aves; Central Italy; Early Pleistocene; Lignite mine

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846414447     PISSN: 00356883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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