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A trans-Atlantic record of the fossil tropicbird Heliadornis ashbyi (Aves : Phaethontidae) from the Miocene of Belgium

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dc.contributor.author Olson, Storrs L.
dc.contributor.author Walker, C. A.
dc.date.accessioned 2007-06-11T19:04:36Z
dc.date.available 2007-06-11T19:04:36Z
dc.date.issued 1997
dc.identifier 0006-324X
dc.identifier.citation Olson, Storrs L. and Walker, C. A. 1997. "<a href="https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/1725">A trans-Atlantic record of the fossil tropicbird Heliadornis ashbyi (Aves : Phaethontidae) from the Miocene of Belgium</a>." <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington</em>, 110, (4) 624–628.
dc.identifier.issn 0006-324X
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10088/1725
dc.description.abstract The fossil tropicbird Heliadornis ashbyi Olson, previously known from the unique holotype from the middle Miocene Calvert Formation of Maryland, is here recorded from a contemporaneous site in Belgium based on a nearly complete humerus. Its trans-Atlantic occurrence at a much higher latitude suggests that Heliadornis may have been the higher-latitude sister group of the extant tropical genus Phaethon, much as within the Sulidae gannets of the genus Morus are the higher latitude counterparts of the tropical boobies of the genus Sula.
dc.format.extent 486215 bytes
dc.format.extent 624–628
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher BIOL SOC WASHINGTON
dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 110 (4)
dc.title A trans-Atlantic record of the fossil tropicbird Heliadornis ashbyi (Aves : Phaethontidae) from the Miocene of Belgium
dc.type article
sro.identifier.refworksID 66687
sro.identifier.itemID 75168
sro.description.unit NMNH
sro.description.unit NH-Vertebrate Zoology
sro.identifier.url https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/1725
sro.publicationPlace WASHINGTON; NAT MUSEUM NAT HIST SMITHSONIAN INST, WASHINGTON, DC 20560 USA


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