Primobucco mcgrewi (Aves: Coracii) from the Eocene Green River Formation: New anatomical data from the earliest constrained record of stem rollers

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 215-225

  Ksepka, Daniel T ^a,b   Clarke, Julia A ^a,b,c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; IDENTIFICATION KEY; PASSERINE; TYPE LOCALITY; TYPE SPECIMEN;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; BRACHYPTERACIIDAE; CORACII; CORACIIDAE;

EID: 77949771199     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724630903412414     Document Type: Article

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