New Avian tracks from the lower to middle Eocene at Fossil Hill, King George Island, Antarctica

Antarctic Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 500-506

  Mansilla, Héctor G ^a   De Valais, Silvina ^b   Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang ^c   Varela, Natalia A ^a   Leppe, Marcelo A ^a  

^a Depto Cie Inst Antartico Chileno   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE RÍO NEGRO   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

avian footprints; Cenozoic; Gondwana; ichnotaxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EOCENE; FIELDWORK; FOOTPRINT; ICHNOLOGY; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MUDSTONE; SANDSTONE; TAXONOMY; TRACE FOSSIL; TRACKWAY; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

ANTARCTICA; FILDES PENINSULA; KING GEORGE ISLAND; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

AVES;

EID: 84866424764     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102012000260     Document Type: Article

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