Palaelodidae

Palaelodids
Reconstructed skeleton of Palaelodus ambiguus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Phoenicopteriformes
Family:†Palaelodidae
Stejneger, 1885
Genera

†Adelalopus
†Palaelodus
†Megapaloelodus

Palaelodidae is a family of extinct birds in the group Phoenicopteriformes, which today is represented only by the flamingos.[1] They have been described as "swimming flamingos."

They can be considered evolutionarily, and ecologically, intermediate between flamingos and grebes.[2]

Three genera are recognised:[3][4]

  • †Adelalopus Mayr & Smith 2002 called the "stout-legged flamingos" (Borgloon Early Oligocene of Hoogbutsel, Belgium)[5]
    • †Adelalopus hoogbutseliensis Mayr & Smith 2002
  • †Palaelodus Milne-Edwards 1863 [Pliogrus Lambrecht 1933] (Middle Oligocene -? Middle Pleistocene)
    • †P. ambiguus Milne-Edwards 1863 [Grus problematica Milne-Edwards 1871; Probalearica problematica (Milne-Edwards 1871); Palaelodus gracilipes Milne-Edwards 1863; Palaelodus crassipes Milne-Edwards 1863; Paloelodus minutus (sic) Milne-Edwards 1868; Grus miocenicus Grigorescu & Kessler 1977]
    • †P. aotearoa Worthy et al. 2010
    • †P. germanicus (Lambrecht 1933) [Pliogrus germanicus Lambrecht 1933]
    • †P. kurochkini Zelenkov 2013
    • †P. pledgei Baird & Vickers-Rich 1998
    • †P. wilsoni Baird & Vickers-Rich 1998
  • †Megapaloelodus Miller 1944 (Late Oligocene - Early Pliocene)
    • †M. conectens (Miller 1944)
    • †M. peiranoi Agnolin 2009
    • †M. goliath (Milne Edwards 1863) Cheneval 1983c [Paloelodus goliath (sic) Milne-Edwards 1868]
    • †M. opsigonus Brodkorb 1961

References

  1. ↑ Mayr, Gerald (2004). "Morphological evidence for sister group relationship between flamingos (Aves: Phoenicopteridae) and grebes (Podicipedidae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 140 (2): 157–169. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00094.x. ISSN 0024-4082. Retrieved November 3, 2009.
  2. ↑ Mayr, Gerald (2006). "The contribution of fossils to the reconstruction of the higher-level phylogeny of birds" (PDF). Species, Phylogeny and Evolution. 3: 59–64. ISSN 1098-660X. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
  3. ↑ Haaramo, Mikko (2007). "Phoenicopteriformes – flamingoes". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Taxonomic lists- Aves". Paleofile.com (net, info). Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  5. ↑ Gál, Erika; Hir, János; Kessler, Eugén; Kókay, József; Venczel, Márton. "Középsõ-miocén õsmaradványok a Mátraszõlõs, Rákóczi-kápolna alatti útbevágásból. II. A Mátraszõlõs 2. lelõhely" [Middle Miocene fossils from the section of the road at the Rákóczi Capel, Mátraszõlõs. II. Locality Mátraszõlõs 2.] (PDF). Folia Historico Naturalia Musei Matraensis (in Hungarian and English): 39–75. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
  • Hugueney, Marguerite; Berthet, Didier; Bodergat, Anne-Marie; Escuillié, François; Mourer-Chauviré, Cécile; Wattinne, Aurélia (2003). "La limite Oligocène-Miocène en Limagne-changements fauniques chez les mammifères, oiseaux et ostracodes des différents niveaux de Billy-Créchy (Allier, France)". Geobios (in French and English). 36 (6): 719–731. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2003.01.002.
  • Milne-Edwards, Alphonse (1863). "Mémoire sur la distribution géologique des oiseaux fossiles et description de quelques espèces nouvelles". Annales des Sciences Naturelles (in French). 4 (20): 132–176.
  • Mayr, Gerald (2006). "The contribution of fossils to the reconstruction of the higher-level phylogeny of birds" (PDF). Species, Phylogeny and Evolution. 1: 59–64. ISSN 1098-660X. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
  • Miller, Loye H. (1954). "The Avifauna of the Barstow Miocene of California" (PDF). The Condor. 54 (5): 296–301. doi:10.2307/1364945.


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