An owl of the genus Berruornis is described from a Paleocene fissure filling of Walbeck, Germany. The specimen is a well preserved incomplete right tarsometatarsus and is the earliest Old World record of an owl. A praemaxilla from the same locality which comes from a similarly-sized raptorial bird i
Skeletal remains of a diminutive primate from the Paleocene of Germany
โ Scribed by Gerhard Storch
- Book ID
- 105804395
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 122 KB
- Volume
- 95
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-1042
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