Birds of Aldabra
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A terrestrial vertebrate palaeontological review of Aldabra Atoll, Aldabra Group, Seychelles
The Pleistocene vertebrate assemblage of Aldabra Atoll has been comparatively well studied. Three Upper Pleistocene fossil localities have been described yielding birds, reptiles and terrestrial molluscs. Those of Bassin Cabri and Bassin Lebine on Ile Picard are undated but must be in excess of 136,000 YBP, whereas Point Hodoul on Malabar Island is circa 100,000 YBP. Aldabra was seemingly compl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the African Bird Club
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1352-481X
DOI: 10.5962/p.309566