Late pleistocene passerine birds from Sonora, Mexico

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 301, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 56-63

  Oswald, Jessica A ^a   Steadman, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Historical biogeography; Icteridae; Late Pleistocene bird communities; Megafaunal extinctions; Pandanaris; Quaternary vegetation change

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; HISTORICAL RECORD; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SONGBIRD; VEGETATION TYPE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SONORA;

AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS; AVES; CORVIDA; EUPHAGUS CYANOCEPHALUS; ICTERIDAE; ICTERUS SPURIUS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS AENEUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; QUISCALUS MEXICANUS; TURDUS MERULA; VERTEBRATA; XANTHOCEPHALUS; XANTHOCEPHALUS XANTHOCEPHALUS;

EID: 79951672347     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.12.020     Document Type: Article

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