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The unexpected survival of an ancient lineage of anseriform birds into the Neogene of Australia: the youngest record of Presbyornithidae

Presbyornithids were the dominant birds in Palaeogene lacustrine assemblages, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, but are thought to have disappeared worldwide by the mid-Eocene. Now classified within Anseriformes (screamers, ducks, swans and geese), their relationships have long been obscured by...

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Autores principales: De Pietri, Vanesa L., Scofield, R. Paul, Zelenkov, Nikita, Boles, Walter E., Worthy, Trevor H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4785986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26998335
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150635