Download or read book Eagles and Eagle like Vultures of the Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea written by Hildegarde Howard and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Oligocene Eagle from Wyoming written by Alexander Wetmore and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fossil Vertebrates in the American Museum of Natural History written by American Museum of Natural History. Dept. of Vertebrate Palaeontology and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eagles and Eagle like Vultures of the Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea written by Hildegarde Howard and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fossil Vertebrates in the American Museum of Natural History written by American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Americas Antiquities 100 Years of Managing Fossils on Federal Lands written by Spencer G. Lucas and published by New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Introduction to Geology and Its Associate Sciences written by George Fleming Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A E written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Introduction to Geology and Its Associated Sciences Mineralogy Fossil Botany and Conchology and Palaeontology written by George Fleming Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fossil Record 3 written by Robert M. Sullivan and published by New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This book was released on 2011 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Avian survivors written by Clive Finlayson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a fresh approach that classifies birds according to their bioclimatic characteristics, Clive Finlayson views the history and distribution of Palearctic birds from a radical new angle. History and chance events play a central role in a story that has its origins before the asteroid impact that finished off the dinosaurs. In this book, Finlayson shows that the avifauna of the Palearctic long predates the glaciations of the last two million years, and had established itself gradually during the turbulent times of the Miocene and Pliocene, the lifting of Tibet and the drying of the continents having a major influence on these birds. Those that made it to the start of the glaciations were equipped to deal with whatever the climate could throw at them. They were the avian survivors, and they are still here with us today. Packed with figures and with a rich colour section, Avian Survivors tells the definitive story of the birds of the Palearctic, across space and time.

Download or read book Class book of Geology written by Archibald Geikie and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Taxonomy of Fossil Eagles and Vultures Aves Accipitridae from Australia written by Ellen Mather and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Accipitridae are a family of predatory birds which comprise of species such as eagles, hawks, and Old-World vultures. They first appear in the fossil record in the late Eocene of Europe and North America, and today have a global distribution across all continents except Antarctica. Modern Australia is home to seventeen species of this family, including the iconic wedge-tailed eagle Aquila audax, but our understanding of the evolutionary and fossil history of these birds on this continent is severely lacking. -- The research presented within this thesis includes the first description of a late Oligocene accipitrid (~26-24 million years ago) from the Namba Formation of Lake Pinpa, South Australia. This new species is represented by a partial skeleton, allowing detailed analysis and comparison. Morphological comparisons revealed the fossil taxon was very similar to species of the forest-dwelling hawks and eagles Spizaetus and Spilornis, and phylogenetic analysis with living Accipitridae determined the taxon most likely belonged to a unique basal subfamily that was potentially endemic to Australia (presented in chapter 2). -- The Pleistocene fossil species “Taphaetus” lacertosus de Vis, 1905, had the original lectotype (a distal humerus) and associated material (a quadrate) redescribed. This determined that the original assessment of the humerus as a distinct species of accipitrid was valid, but the quadrate was in fact from a species of Ardeidae. In addition to this, undescribed fossil distal humeri from the Wellington Caves, New South Wales, were compared to the lectotype and determined to be referrable to “T.” lacertosus based on their morphology. A tarsometatarsus (AM F.58093) from Wellington Caves was also referred to the taxon due to its association with the humeri, and by proxy a tarsometatarsus from Leaena's Breath Cave due to its similarity to the Wellington specimen. Phylogenetic analysis of the humeri and tarsometatarsi supported a position within the Aegypiinae, a subfamily of Old World vultures. -- The fossil remains of large accipitrids from across southern Australia were assessed to determine the number of species they represented. These included the sites Leaena's breath Cave (Nullarbor, Western Australia), Mairs Cave (Flinders Ranges, South Australia), Victoria Fossil Cave (Naracoorte, South Australia), Green Waterhole Cave (Tantanoola district, South Australia), and the Wellington Caves (Wellington, New South Wales). It was determined that two species were present among the assemblages, which are described within as the Mairs Cave accipitrid and accipitrid GWC/VFC (Green Waterhole Cave/Victoria Fossil Cave). Phylogenetic analyses resolved accipitrid GWC as an aegypiine vulture despite its morphology being much more similar to active predators such as eagles. Accipitrid MC could not have phylogenetic analyses performed upon it due to a lack of material, but its morphology strongly supported a relationship with gypaetine vultures.

Download or read book An Introduction to Geology written by William Berryman Scott and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology and anthropology.