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... Pleistocene are much more ex- tensive and amount to more than 90 anseriforms . Pale- ornithologists tend to be conservative in allocating new specific names to Pleistocene anseriforms , since the ob- served differences correspond to ...
... Pleistocene are much more ex- tensive and amount to more than 90 anseriforms . Pale- ornithologists tend to be conservative in allocating new specific names to Pleistocene anseriforms , since the ob- served differences correspond to ...
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... Pleistocene fossil and present - day species , Nearctic and Neotropical , perhaps formerly Palearctic . Family Cathartidae ( New World vultures ) . Seven present- day Nearctic and Neotropical species and Pleistocene , Nearc- tic , and ...
... Pleistocene fossil and present - day species , Nearctic and Neotropical , perhaps formerly Palearctic . Family Cathartidae ( New World vultures ) . Seven present- day Nearctic and Neotropical species and Pleistocene , Nearc- tic , and ...
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... Pleistocene , and an extinct genus of tern occurred in the Pleistocene . Larus and Sterna first appear in Miocene deposits - Ster- corarius in the Pleistocene . Numerous modern species of Lari have been found in Pleistocene deposits ...
... Pleistocene , and an extinct genus of tern occurred in the Pleistocene . Larus and Sterna first appear in Miocene deposits - Ster- corarius in the Pleistocene . Numerous modern species of Lari have been found in Pleistocene deposits ...
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