Biology:Dynamopterus
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Dynamopterus velox is an extinct prehistoric bird, known from a single large right humerus recovered in France. The humerus shares anatomical features with living cuckoos (though it is much larger).[1] It has also been classified in the suborder Cariamae in the Gruiformes. [2] Some fossils once thought to be Dynamopterus tuberculatus may actually belong to Perplexicervicidae, a newly identified group of birds with bumpy neck bones that might have helped protect them from predators.[3]
References
- ↑ Mayr, Gerald (2009). Paleogene Fossil Birds. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 113. ISBN 9783540896289. https://books.google.com/books?id=P_TB72RBLLMC&pg=PA113.
- ↑ Mourer-Chauviré, Cécile (2013). "Idiornis Oberholser, 1899 (Aves, Gruiformes, Cariamae, Idiornithidae): a junior synonym of Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 (Paleogene, Phosphorites du Quercy, France)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 270 (1): 13–22. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0355. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279151190.
- ↑ Mayr, Gerald (2023). "Reinterpretation of tuberculate cervical vertebrae of Eocene birds as an exceptional anti-predator adaptation". Journal of Anatomy 244 (3): 402–410. doi:10.1111/joa.13980.
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