Miocene songbirds and the composition of the European passeriform avifauna

Auk

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1155-1160

  Manegold, Albrecht ^a   Mayr, Gerald ^b   Mourer Chauviré, Cécile ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOSSIL RECORD; MIOCENE; PASSERINE; SPECIES INVENTORY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GERMANY; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; TYRANNI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 7644232197     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/auk/121.4.1155     Document Type: Article

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