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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...
Autores principales: | Stidham, Thomas A., Krishan, Kewal, Singh, Bahadur, Ghosh, Abhik, Patnaik, Rajeev |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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