A Pelican tarsometatarsus (Aves: Pelecanidae) from the latest pliocene Siwaliks of India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Stidham, Thomas A ^a   Krishan, Kewal ^b   Singh, Bahadur ^b   Ghosh, Abhik ^b   Patnaik, Rajeev ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BONE STRUCTURE; CLADISTICS; EXTINCT SPECIES; FOSSIL; INDIA; METATARSAL BONE; NONHUMAN; PELECANUS CRISPUS; PELECANUS ONOCROTALUS; PELECANUS PHILIPPENSIS; PELECANUS SIVALENSIS; PHYLOGENY; PLIOCENE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TARSOMETATARSUS; TAXONOMY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; PROCEDURES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

AVES; PELECANIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; FOSSILS; INDIA; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84909594917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111210     Document Type: Article

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