Biology:Tynskya
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Tynskya is an extinct genus of messelasturid bird.
Distribution
T. eocaena, the type species, is known from fossils found in the North American Green River Formation.[1] The Walton Member of the London Clay Formation of England contains the species T. waltonensis,[2] along with the more recently described T. brevitarsus and T. crassitarsus.[3]
References
- ↑ Mayr, G. (2000) A new raptor-like bird from the Lower Eocene of North America and Europe. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 80:59–65.
- ↑ Mayr, G. (2021). "A partial skeleton of a new species of Tynskya Mayr, 2000 (Aves, Messelasturidae) from the London Clay highlights the osteological distinctness of a poorly known early Eocene "owl/parrot mosaic"". PalZ 95 (2): 337–357. doi:10.1007/s12542-020-00541-8. ISSN 1867-6812. Bibcode: 2021PalZ...95..337M.
- ↑ Mayr, Gerald; Kitchener, Andrew C. (28 February 2023). "The Vastanavidae and Messelasturidae (Aves) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK)" (in en). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 307 (2): 113–139. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2023/1119. ISSN 0077-7749. http://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/njgpa/detail/307/102756/The_Vastanavidae_and_Messelasturidae_Aves_from_the?af=crossref. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
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