Late Pleistocene songbirds of Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia); the first fossil passerine fauna described from Wallacea

BACKGROUND: Passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) dominate modern terrestrial bird communities yet their fossil record is limited. Liang Bua is a large cave on the Indonesian island of Flores that preserves Late Pleistocene–Holocene deposits (∼190 ka to present day). Birds are the most diverse faunal gro...

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Autores principales: Meijer, Hanneke J.M., Awe Due, Rokus, Sutikna, Thomas, Saptomo, Wahyu, Jatmiko, Wasisto, Sri, Tocheri, Matthew W., Mayr, Gerald
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
Materias:
Biogeography
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5563437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28828271
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3676

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5563437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28828271
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3676

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