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Eocene fossil is earliest evidence of flower-visiting by birds

Birds are important pollinators, but the evolutionary history of ornithophily (bird pollination) is poorly known. Here, we report a skeleton of the avian taxon Pumiliornis from the middle Eocene of Messel in Germany with preserved stomach contents containing numerous pollen grains of an eudicotyledo...

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Hauptverfasser: Mayr, Gerald, Wilde, Volker
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: The Royal Society 2014
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4046380/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24872461
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0223
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