Fossil and Subfossil Bird Remains and Faunas from the Carpathian Basin

The author summarizes the knowledge of fossil and subfossil bird life from the Carpathian Basin, of all geological ages, site by site. After a historical overview, he presents the Mesozoic, Tertiary and Quaternary bird fauna, based on a holistic reference material consisting of 196 titles indicated...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:a49d2df98bf641c8a3aad5b599ac3f6b2021-12-05T14:11:09ZFossil and Subfossil Bird Remains and Faunas from the Carpathian Basin2061-958810.2478/orhu-2014-0019https://doaj.org/article/a49d2df98bf641c8a3aad5b599ac3f6b2014-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.2478/orhu-2014-0019https://doaj.org/toc/2061-9588The author summarizes the knowledge of fossil and subfossil bird life from the Carpathian Basin, of all geological ages, site by site. After a historical overview, he presents the Mesozoic, Tertiary and Quaternary bird fauna, based on a holistic reference material consisting of 196 titles indicated in the bibliography, including papers in English (64), Hungarian (50), German (46), Romanian (26), Croatian (9) and Polish (1) languages. The text is supplemented with maps of fossiliferous sites from different ages and a list from 341 paleontological and archaeological sites on species of the Carpathian Basin, respectively. The number of taxa reaches 845, including 189 extinct taxa (two orders, four families, nine genera - five ichnotaxa of which (154 species, five ichnotaxa and 10 subspecies) were described from the Carpathian Basin, primarily. Most significant records include the Mesozoic taxa (Eurolimnornis, Palaeocursornis, Elopteryx), the new Neogene songbirds species and the presence of predecessors of recent European grouses, Bustards and Corvidae species from the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene in the Carpathian Basin.Kessler Jenö (Eugen)Sciendoarticlecarpathian basinpaleo-ornithological studiesfossil sitesevolutionEcologyQH540-549.5ENOrnis Hungarica, Vol 22, Iss 2, Pp 65-125 (2014)
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topic carpathian basin
paleo-ornithological studies
fossil sites
evolution
Ecology
QH540-549.5
spellingShingle carpathian basin
paleo-ornithological studies
fossil sites
evolution
Ecology
QH540-549.5
Kessler Jenö (Eugen)
Fossil and Subfossil Bird Remains and Faunas from the Carpathian Basin
description The author summarizes the knowledge of fossil and subfossil bird life from the Carpathian Basin, of all geological ages, site by site. After a historical overview, he presents the Mesozoic, Tertiary and Quaternary bird fauna, based on a holistic reference material consisting of 196 titles indicated in the bibliography, including papers in English (64), Hungarian (50), German (46), Romanian (26), Croatian (9) and Polish (1) languages. The text is supplemented with maps of fossiliferous sites from different ages and a list from 341 paleontological and archaeological sites on species of the Carpathian Basin, respectively. The number of taxa reaches 845, including 189 extinct taxa (two orders, four families, nine genera - five ichnotaxa of which (154 species, five ichnotaxa and 10 subspecies) were described from the Carpathian Basin, primarily. Most significant records include the Mesozoic taxa (Eurolimnornis, Palaeocursornis, Elopteryx), the new Neogene songbirds species and the presence of predecessors of recent European grouses, Bustards and Corvidae species from the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene in the Carpathian Basin.
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title Fossil and Subfossil Bird Remains and Faunas from the Carpathian Basin
title_short Fossil and Subfossil Bird Remains and Faunas from the Carpathian Basin
title_full Fossil and Subfossil Bird Remains and Faunas from the Carpathian Basin
title_fullStr Fossil and Subfossil Bird Remains and Faunas from the Carpathian Basin
title_full_unstemmed Fossil and Subfossil Bird Remains and Faunas from the Carpathian Basin
title_sort fossil and subfossil bird remains and faunas from the carpathian basin
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publishDate 2014
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