Hummingbird with modern feathering: An exceptionally well-preserved Oligocene fossil from southern France

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-175

  Louchart, Antoine ^a   Tourment, Nicolas ^a   Carrier, Julie ^a   Roux, Thierry ^b   Mourer Chauviré, Cécile ^c  

^a La Font Mignot ^*  (France)

^b Lycée Quinet   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Eurotrochilus; Evolution; Oligocene; Plumage; Trochilidae

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; OLIGOCENE; PLUMAGE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEAK; BIRD; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; FEATHER; FORAGING; FORELIMB; FOSSIL ANIMAL; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HOVERING BEHAVIOR; HUMMINGBIRD; HYOID BONE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOCENE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHAETHORNITHINAE; PLEISTOCENE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAIL; TROCHILIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; BONE AND BONES; FEATHERS; FOSSILS; FRANCE; PALEONTOLOGY; SKULL;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GERMANY; WESTERN EUROPE;

TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 38049019888     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0309-0     Document Type: Article

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