Paludiavis

Paludiavis
Temporal range: 11.6–5.3 Ma
Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Balaenicipitidae
Genus: †Paludavis
Species: †P. richae
Type species
†Paludavis richae
Harrison & Walker, 1982

Paludavis is a genus of extinct waterbirds in the Pelecaniformes family. It was described from fossil tarsometatarsus pieces, one found in the Upper Miocene series of the Shivalik Formation in northern Pakistan and the other, a 1972 find that is also from the Upper Miocence, of Tunisia, referred by Colin Harrison and Cyril Walker to the same genus.[1][2][3] The genus consists of only one species, Paludavis richae.[4][5][6]

Sources

  1. ↑ Smith, N Adam (December 2013). "Avian fossils from the Early Miocene Moghra Formation of Egypt". Ostrich. 84 (3): 181–189. doi:10.2989/00306525.2013.863233. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  2. ↑ Rich, PV (1972). "A fossil avifauna from the Upper Miocene, Beglia Formation of Tunisia". Notes et mémoires du Service géologique (Egypt). 35: 29–66.
  3. ↑ Naish, Darren. "You can never have too many shoebills". Tetrapod Zoology.
  4. ↑ Donald S. Farner; James R. King (1985). Parkes, Kenneth, ed. Avian Biology (1. [Dr.]. ed.). Orlando: Academic Press. ISBN 0122494083.
  5. ↑ Harrison, Colin J. O.; Walker, Cyril A. "Fossil Birds from the Upper Miocene of Northern Pakistan". Tertiary Research. 4 (2): 53-69.
  6. ↑ Chatterjee, Sankar (2015). The Rise of Birds : 225 Million Years of Evolution (2nd ed.). ISBN 1421415909.
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