Revised age of the late Neogene terror bird (Titanis) in North America during the Great American Interchange

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 123-126

  MacFadden, Bruce J ^a   Labs Hochstein, Joann ^a   Hulbert Jr , Richard C ^a   Baskin, Jon A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone; Diagenesis; Extinction; Florida; Great American Interchange; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Rare earths; Taphonomy; Texas; Titanis walleri

Indexed keywords

DIAGENESIS; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; TAPHONOMY; TERROR BIRD; TITANIS WALLERI; FLORIDA; TEXAS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BONE; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; BIRDS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; RARE EARTHS; RIVERS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAMMALS;

BIRD; BONE; DIAGENESIS; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL; NEOGENE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TAPHONOMY; AGE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; IMMIGRANT; LAND BRIDGE; TYPE LOCALITY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; SANTA FE RIVER; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33846998998     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23186A.1     Document Type: Article

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