Two Old World vultures from the middle Pleistocene of northeastern China and their implications for interspecific competition and biogeography of Aegypiinae

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 117-124

  Zhang, Zihui ^a   Huang, Yunping ^b   James, Helen F ^c   Hou, Lianhai ^a,d  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; CRANIUM; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL; HERBIVORE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NEW GENUS; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

CHINA; LIAONING;

ACCIPITRIDAE; AEGYPIUS; AEGYPIUS MONACHUS; CRANIA; MAMMALIA; TORGOS;

EID: 84863048759     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2012.624146     Document Type: Article

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