Biology:Plesiocathartes
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Plesiocathartes is an extinct genus of birds that lived during the Eocene to Oligocene period. It currently presents 5 species from Europe and North America. It was originally described related to New World vultures, but recent studies have uncovered that the genus was more closely related to the cuckoo-roller from Madagascar.[1]
Distribution
P. insolitipes fossils are known from Walton-on-the-Naze, a site stratigraphically located in the Walton Member of the London Clay Formation of southeastern England.[2]
References
- ↑ Mayr, G. (2002). "A new species of Plesiocathartes (Aves: ?Leptosomidae) from the Middle Eocene of Messel, Germany". PaleoBios 22: 10-20.
- ↑ Mayr, Gerald; Kitchener, Andrew C. (30 November 2022). "New species from the early Eocene London Clay suggest an undetected early Eocene diversity of the Leptosomiformes, an avian clade that includes a living fossil from Madagascar" (in en). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 103 (3): 585–608. doi:10.1007/s12549-022-00560-0. ISSN 1867-1594. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-022-00560-0. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
Further reading
- R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution 1-698
- J. F. de Villalta. 1963. Las aves fósiles del Mioceno español. Boletin de la Real Socieded Española de Historia Natural 61:263-285
- K. Lambrecht. 1933. Handbuch der Palaeornithologie. 1-1024
- G. Mayr. 2005. The Paleogene fossil record of birds in Europe. Biological Reviews 80:513-542
- G. Mayr and T. Smith. 2019. A diverse bird assemblage from the Ypresian of Belgium furthers knowledge of early Eocene avifaunas of the North Sea Basin. Neus Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen 291(3):253-281
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