The earliest fossil record of a medium-sized penguin

Polish Polar Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 269-277

  Jadwiszczak, Piotr ^a   Chapman, Sandra D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic Peninsula; Early Eocene; Humerus; La Meseta Formation; Sphenisci formes; Telm3

Indexed keywords

BONE; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOCENE; SEABIRD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ANTARCTICA;

AVES; SPHENISCIDAE; SPHENISCIFORMES;

EID: 80053216014     PISSN: 01380338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10183-011-0020-x     Document Type: Article

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