The first representative Pliocene assemblages of passerine birds in Asia (Northern Mongolia and Russian Transbaikalia)

Geobios

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 323-334

  Zelenkov, Nikita V ^a   Kurochkin, Evgeny N ^a  

^a PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Asia; Hirundo; Late Pliocene; Passeriformes; Pliocalcarius nov. gen.; Rhodospiza; Russia

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; AVIFAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PASSERINE; PLIOCENE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

MONGOLIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TRANSBAIKALIA;

AVES; CALCARIUS; HIRUNDO; PARADOXORNIS; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; SYNAPTOMYS;

EID: 84863097563     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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