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“Terror Birds” (Phorusrhacidae) from the Eocene of Europe Imply Trans-Tethys Dispersal

BACKGROUND: Phorusrhacidae was a clade including middle-sized to giant terrestrial carnivorous birds, known mainly from the Cenozoic of South America, but also occurring in the Plio-Pleistocene of North America and the Eocene of Africa. Previous reports of small phorusrhacids in the Paleogene of Eur...

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Autores principales: Angst, Delphine, Buffetaut, Eric, Lécuyer, Christophe, Amiot, Romain
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3842325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24312212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080357