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.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019
• Subjects: Biogeography; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Fossa; Sandwich Bluff; The Antarctic; Vega Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6626523/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31333904; https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7231

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...