The presence of Harlequin duck Histrionicus histrionicus (Linnaeus 1758) in the Middle Pleistocene of Italy
A nearly complete coracoid of Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus (Linnaeus 1758) is described from the Middle Pleistocene of Casal Selce (Rome, Central Italy). The fossil specimen is verywell preserved and itsmorphology and dimensions are perfectly compatiblewith those ofmodern HarlequinDuck,...
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ftunivtorino:oai:iris.unito.it:2318/136241 2023-11-05T03:42:52+01:00 The presence of Harlequin duck Histrionicus histrionicus (Linnaeus 1758) in the Middle Pleistocene of Italy PAVIA, Marco C. Bedetti M. Pavia C. Bedetti 2013 STAMPA http://hdl.handle.net/2318/136241 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000323930500027 volume:154 firstpage:875 lastpage:878 numberofpages:4 journal:JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY http://hdl.handle.net/2318/136241 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-84879183772 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2013 ftunivtorino 2023-10-10T22:20:43Z A nearly complete coracoid of Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus (Linnaeus 1758) is described from the Middle Pleistocene of Casal Selce (Rome, Central Italy). The fossil specimen is verywell preserved and itsmorphology and dimensions are perfectly compatiblewith those ofmodern HarlequinDuck, and differ fromother candidate diving ducks. This record represents the first European fossil of this species, previously recorded as fossil only in North America, and one of the few European documented records of wild-origin bird outside Iceland, where the species is sedentary. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Università degli studi di Torino: AperTo (Archivio Istituzionale ad Accesso Aperto) |
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A nearly complete coracoid of Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus (Linnaeus 1758) is described from the Middle Pleistocene of Casal Selce (Rome, Central Italy). The fossil specimen is verywell preserved and itsmorphology and dimensions are perfectly compatiblewith those ofmodern HarlequinDuck, and differ fromother candidate diving ducks. This record represents the first European fossil of this species, previously recorded as fossil only in North America, and one of the few European documented records of wild-origin bird outside Iceland, where the species is sedentary. |
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PAVIA, Marco C. Bedetti The presence of Harlequin duck Histrionicus histrionicus (Linnaeus 1758) in the Middle Pleistocene of Italy |
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PAVIA, Marco C. Bedetti |
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The presence of Harlequin duck Histrionicus histrionicus (Linnaeus 1758) in the Middle Pleistocene of Italy |
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The presence of Harlequin duck Histrionicus histrionicus (Linnaeus 1758) in the Middle Pleistocene of Italy |
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The presence of Harlequin duck Histrionicus histrionicus (Linnaeus 1758) in the Middle Pleistocene of Italy |
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The presence of Harlequin duck Histrionicus histrionicus (Linnaeus 1758) in the Middle Pleistocene of Italy |
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The presence of Harlequin duck Histrionicus histrionicus (Linnaeus 1758) in the Middle Pleistocene of Italy |
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presence of harlequin duck histrionicus histrionicus (linnaeus 1758) in the middle pleistocene of italy |
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