An avian femur from the Late Cretaceous of Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsula: removing the record of cursorial landbirds from the Mesozoic of Antarctica

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: West, Abagael R., Torres, Christopher R., Case, Judd A., Clarke, Julia A., O'Connor, Patrick M., Lamanna, Matthew C.
• Other Authors: Rea Postdoctoral Fellowship of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs grants
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Fossa; Sandwich Bluff; The Antarctic; Vega Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7231; https://peerj.com/articles/7231.pdf; https://peerj.com/articles/7231.xml; https://peerj.com/articles/7231.html

In 2006, a partial avian femur (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM) 78247) from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Sandwich Bluff Member of the López de Bertodano Formation of Sandwich Bluff on Vega Island of the northern Antarctic Peninsula was briefly reported as that of a cariami...