Perdix palaeoperdix Mourer-Chauviré, 1975

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

Bulgaria

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Mourer- Chauviré, C. (1975). Les oiseaux du Pléistocène moyen et supérieur de France. – Doc. Lab. Geol. Fac. Sc. Lyon 64: 1-624.

Other references:

Bedetti, Claudia and Pavia, Marco. (2013). Early Pleistocene birds from Pirro Nord (Puglia, southern Italy). Palaeontographica, Abt. A: Palaeozoology – Stratigraphy 298(1-6): 31-53.

Boev, Z. N. (2001). Birds over the mammoths’ head in Bulgaria, pp. 180-186. In: Cavarretta, C., Gioia, P., Mussi, M. and Palombo, M. R. (eds.). The World of Elephants – International Congress, Rome. Proceedings of the 1st international congress – Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, Rome. [automatic download]

Marra F., Pandolfi L., Petronio C., Di Stefano G., Gaeta M. & Salari L., 2014. Reassessing the sedimentary deposits and vertebrate assemblages from Ponte Galeria area (Rome, central Italy): an archive for the Middle Pleistocene faunas of Europe. Earth-Science Reviews 139: 104-122.

Pavia, Marco et al. (2018). A new Middle Pleistocene bird assemblage from Cava di Breccia di Casal Selce (Ponte Galeria, Rome, Italy). Avocetta 42: 31-38.

Sardella R., Bedetti C., Iurino D.A., Pavia M. & Bellucci L. (2015). Comment on “Reassessing the sedimentary deposits and vertebrate assemblages from Ponte Galeria area (Rome, central Italy): An archive for the Middle Pleistocene faunas of Europe” by F Marra, L Pandolfi, C Petronio, G Di Stefano, M Gaeta, L. Salari [2014, Earth-Science Reviews. 139: 104-122]. Earth-Science Reviews 147: 201–203.

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