Fossil birds from the Roof of the World: The first avian fauna from High Asia and its implications for late Quaternary environments in Eastern Pamir

Nikita Zelenkov; Nuritdin Sayfulloev; Svetlana V. Shnaider

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0259151

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Fossil birds from the Roof of the World: The first avian fauna from High Asia and its implications for late Quaternary environments in Eastern Pamir

Nikita Zelenkov ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: nzelen@paleo.ru

Affiliation Borissiak Paleontological institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4367-0402

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Nuritdin Sayfulloev,

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
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Svetlana V. Shnaider

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation ArchaeoZOOlogy in Siberia and Central Asia–ZooSCAn, CNRS–IAET SB RAS International Research Laboratory, IRL 2013, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Fossil birds from the Roof of the World: The first avian fauna from High Asia and its implications for late Quaternary environments in Eastern Pamir

Nikita Zelenkov,
Nuritdin Sayfulloev,
Svetlana V. Shnaider

Published: October 27, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259151

About the Authors

Nikita Zelenkov

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: nzelen@paleo.ru

Affiliation Borissiak Paleontological institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4367-0402

Nuritdin Sayfulloev

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Svetlana V. Shnaider

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation ArchaeoZOOlogy in Siberia and Central Asia–ZooSCAn, CNRS–IAET SB RAS International Research Laboratory, IRL 2013, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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