Reinterpretation of the Late Pleistocene Ingarano cave deposit based on the fossil bird associations (Apulia, South-eastern Italy)

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 487-507

  Bedetti, Claudia ^a   Pavia, Marco ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Birds; Chronology; Late Pleistocene; Palaeoecology; Southern Italy; Systematics; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIRD; BONE; CAVE DEPOSIT; FOSSIL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PREDATION; RECONSTRUCTION; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PUGLIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ALECTORIS GRAECA; AQUILA CHRYSAETOS; ATHENE NOCTUA; AVES; BUBO BUBO; BUTEO RUFINUS; CIRCUS AERUGINOSUS; COLUMBA LIVIA; CORVUS CORAX; CORVUS CORONE; CORVUS FRUGILEGUS; FALCO CHERRUG; FALCO COLUMBARIUS; MAMMALIA; NOCTUA; NYCTEA SCANDIACA; OTUS SCOPS; PERDIX PERDIX; PYRRHOCORAX GRACULUS; PYRRHOCORAX PYRRHOCORAX;

EID: 38349131774     PISSN: 00356883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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