New bird remains from the Middle Eocene of Guangdong, China

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 519-526

  Wang, Min ^a   Mayr, Gerald ^b   Zhang, Jiangyong ^a   Zhou, Zhonghe ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aves; China; Ciconiiformes; Middle Eocene; Threskiornithidae

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EOCENE; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; SKELETAL REMAINS;

CHINA; GUANGDONG;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; THRESKIORNITHIDAE;

EID: 84866486078     PISSN: 05677920     EISSN: 17322421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4202/app.2011.0061     Document Type: Article

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