Affinities of miocene waterfowl (anatidae: Manuherikia, dunstanetta and miotadorna) from the St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand

Palaeontology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 677-708

  Worthy, Trevor H ^a   Lee, Michael S Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dunstanetta; Manuherikia; Mionetta; Miotadorna; Neogene waterfowl; New Zealand; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; FOSSIL RECORD; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; SKELETON; TAXONOMY; WATERFOWL;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

ANATIDAE; BIZIURA; CHENONETTA FINSCHI; CNEMIORNIS; DENDROCYGNA; MALACORHYNCHUS; NOMONYX; OXYURA; STICTONETTA; TADORNA; TADORNA RADJAH; THALASSORNIS;

EID: 43949088194     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00778.x     Document Type: Article

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