A phororhacoid bird from the Eocene of Africa

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 815-823

  Mourer Chauviré, Cécile ^a   Tabuce, Rodolphe ^b   Mahboubi, M'Hammed ^c   Adaci, Mohammed ^d   Bensalah, Mustapha ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ORAN   (Algeria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TLEMCEN   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Algeria; Aves; Eocene; Paleobiogeography; South America; Transatlantic dispersal

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BONE; CRETACEOUS; DISPERSAL; EOCENE; FLIGHTLESSNESS; FOSSIL RECORD; GONDWANA; ISLAND; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PREDATOR; RECONSTRUCTION; SCAVENGER; TERTIARY; TRANSMIGRATION; VICARIANCE;

ALGERIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; FEMUR; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALGERIA; ANIMALS; BIRDS; FEMUR; FOSSILS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ALGERIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; PALAEOGNATHAE;

EID: 80054817936     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0829-5     Document Type: Article

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