Palaeoenvironmental and faunal inferences based on the avian fossil record of Patagonia and Pampa: What works and what does not

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 458-474

  Tambussi, Claudia P ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aves; Biogeography; Cenozoic; Faunal associations; Palaeoenvironments

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CARNIVORE; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EPISODIC EVENT; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; ISOLATED POPULATION; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RELATEDNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARGENTINA; PAMPAS; PATAGONIA;

ACCIPITRIDAE; ANATIDAE; ANHIMIDAE; ANHINGIDAE; AVES; CICONIIDAE; FALCONIDAE; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PELECANIDAE; RALLIDAE; RHEA; RHEIFORMES; TERATORNITHIDAE; TINAMIFORMES; TYRANNI;

EID: 79957783547     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01658.x     Document Type: Article

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