A stem lineage representative of buttonquails from the Lower Oligocene of Germany - Fossil evidence for a charadriiform origin of the Turnicidae

Ibis

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 774-782

  Mayr, Gerald ^a   Knopf, Charles W ^b  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; FOSSIL RECORD; NEW SPECIES; OLIGOCENE; OSTEOLOGY; WATERFOWL;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRAUENWEILER; GERMANY;

AVES; CHARADRIIFORMES; TURNICIDAE;

EID: 35048823330     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00712.x     Document Type: Article

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