From Charles Darwin’s comments to the first mention of South American giant fossil birds: Auguste Bravard’s catalogue of fossil species from Argentina (1860) and its significance
In 1860, the French geologist and palaeontologist Auguste Bravard (1803-1861) circulated a small number of copies of a hand-written and lithographed catalogue of the fossils he had collected in various parts of Argentina over a period of about eight years. Although the existence of this catalogue ha...
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EDP Sciences
2016-01-01
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Series: | BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin |
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Online Access: | https://www.bsgf.fr/articles/bsgf/pdf/2016/01/bsgf201618701p41.pdf |