A survey of Eocene stomach contents illuminates the origins of frugivory and seed dispersal in neornithine (crown group) birds
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Stomach contents with seeds in avian fossils from the latest early/earliest middle Eocene Messel oil shale (Germany) are surveyed. 20 bird specimens belonging to 10 species with seeds produced by at least 13 different plant species are reported. The fossils pr... ...
