Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 36(2) 1993

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VOL 36(2) 1993

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Fossil birds, Poland, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Holocene, catalogue

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Catalogue of fossil and subfossil birds of Poland

• Zygmunt BOCHEŃSKI

Abstract:

All fossil and subfossil bird remains described up to mid-1993 are included. They date from the period between the Late Oligocene and the Middle Ages or even the Modern Ages. They com e from 164 localities where palaeontological as well as archaeological excavations were carried out: 2 in Oligocene deposits, 1 Miocene, 4 Pliocene,11 Pleistocene, 16 Late Pleistocene and H olocene, and 130 Holocene (most of them from the Middle Ages). The remains described represent 8 fossil genera and species, 1 fossil subspecies and at least 165 neospecies.