Passerine diversity in the late Oligocene of Germany: Earliest evidence for the sympatric coexistence of Suboscines and Oscines

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Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 377-387

  Manegold, Albrecht ^a  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acanthisittidae; Carpometacarpus; Fossil; Humerus; Oligocene; Passeriformes; Phylogeny; Ulna

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COEXISTENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; NEW RECORD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PASSERINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMPATRY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

ACANTHISITTIDAE; AVES; MYA; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; TYRANNI;

EID: 41149121996     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00802.x     Document Type: Article

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