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A Pelican Tarsometatarsus (Aves: Pelecanidae) from the Latest Pliocene Siwaliks of India

We report a new fossil specimen of a pelican from the Tatrot Formation of the Siwalik Hills, India. It likely represents Pelecanus sivalensis Davies, 1880, the smaller of the two previously published species from the Siwalik Group stratigraphic sequence. This complete tarsometatarsus is the first fo...

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Autores principales: Stidham, Thomas A., Krishan, Kewal, Singh, Bahadur, Ghosh, Abhik, Patnaik, Rajeev
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4218845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25365300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111210