Bone of a presumed odontopterygian bird from the Miocene of New Zealand

Scarlett, R. J.

doi:10.1080/00288306.1972.10421960

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“…to Pliocene of South America (Cheneval, 1993;Walsh and Hume, 2001;Rincón and Stucchi, 2003;Chavez et al, 2007), including a well-preserved but still undescribed skull from the Miocene of Peru (GoGeometry, 2009), Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (Ono et al, 1985;Ono, 1989), and Miocene of New Zealand (Scarlett, 1972). Most of the comparative material we consulted consists of undescribed specimens deposited in the collections of the LACM and NMNH.…”

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“…Some remains were also recovered from the Middle Eocene (Stilwell et al, 1998) to late Eocene of Antarctica (Tonni, 1980;Tonni and Tambussi, 1985;Tambussi and Hospitaleche, 2007) and from the Miocene (Howard and Warter, 1969;Scarlett, 1972) to Pliocene (McKee, 1985) of New Zealand. Thus, the pseudotoothed birds from the Upper Paleocene/Lower Eocene phosphates of Morocco are among the oldest representatives of this group.…”

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Pseudotoothed Birds (Aves, Odontopterygiformes) from the Early Tertiary of Morocco

Bourdon

Amaghzaz

Bouya

2010

American Museum Novitates

692

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We describe here new specimens of pseudotoothed birds (Odontopterygiformes) from the Upper Paleocene and Lower Eocene of the Ouled Abdoun Basin, Morocco. These Lower Paleogene fossils are among the oldest representatives of the Odontopterygiformes and include braincases, beak fragments, and long bones. Dasornis toliapica (Owen, 1873) (2-3 m wingspan) and Dasornis emuinus (Bowerbank, 1854) (3.5-4.5 m wingspan) were initially described from the Lower Eocene London Clay of Sheppey, England. The new species Dasornis abdoun (1.5-1.7 m wingspan) constitutes the smallest species of pseudotoothed bird ever discovered. We partly revise the oversplit taxonomy of the odontopterygiforms: the two species from the Paleogene of England and Morocco are regarded as congeneric, the name Dasornis having priority over the name Odontopteryx. We also synonymize Neptuniavis minor Harrison and Walker, 1977, and Macrodontopteryx oweni Harrison and Walker, 1976, with D. toliapica (Owen, 1873. Moreover, the genera Pelagornis Lartet, 1857, and Osteodontornis Howard, 1957, are regarded as pertaining to one single taxonomic entity that corresponds to the Pelagornis morphotype. In Dasornis, the morphological peculiarities of the humerus that are related to gliding flight are less pronounced than in Pelagornis. The latter taxon includes exceedingly specialized gliders that were most likely unable of sustained flapping flight and relied almost entirely on winds to provide lift. Pseudotoothed birds pertaining to the Dasornis morphotype were more generalists and could probably undertake flapping flight, even if limited. The species of Dasornis were soaring pelagic feeders that could disperse over large territories like extant albatrosses. They formed large breeding colonies near the shore of the

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Pseudotoothed Birds (Aves, Odontopterygiformes) from the Early Tertiary of Morocco

Bourdon

Amaghzaz

Bouya

2010

American Museum Novitates

692

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“…A small undescribed fauna of waterbirds is known from the Miocene of St Bathans, in central Otago (Douglas et al 1981;Fordyce 1982Fordyce , 1991. Pelagornithid seabirds were present in the Pliocene of North Canterbury (Howard & Waiter 1969) and Hawera (Scarlett 1972;McK.ee 1985). Moas are known from deposits of Pliocene to early Pleistocene age .…”

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A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact

Holdaway¹,

Worthy

Tennyson³

2001

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

164

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We present an annotated working list of the bird species breeding in New Zealand during the late Pleistocene and Holocene, up to the time of human contact. New Zealand is defined as including the three main islands and the surrounding smaller islands, plus outlying island groups from Norfolk Island in the northwest, the Kermadec, Chatham, Bounty, Antipodes, Campbell, Auckland, Snares, to Macquarie Islands, but excluding islands south of Macquarie Island and the Ross Dependency. Inclusions or exclusions of species from the list were based on specified criteria. We include only species with a breeding population and not vagrants that occur in New Zealand but which breed elsewhere. Species with validly published names were included if there was fossil evidence for a breeding population

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“…The partial skull and femur described by Howard & Warter (1969) was named Pseudodontornis stirtoni, but the second specimen, a partial right humerus, was only identified to family level (Scarlett 1972). Although the specimen reported by Scarlett (1972) is oflate Miocene age, the holotype of P. stirtoni is of uncertain age and could be from early Miocene to the late Pliocene (Howard & Warter 1969).…”

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“…Although the specimen reported by Scarlett (1972) is oflate Miocene age, the holotype of P. stirtoni is of uncertain age and could be from early Miocene to the late Pliocene (Howard & Warter 1969). Several authors have accepted a late Pliocene age for this specimen without stating their reasons for doing so (Brodkorb 1971, Fleming 1979, Scarlett 1972 ably considered that the concretion from the Motunau Beach locality was similar to those found on the beach that contain fossil crabs, and which are derived from the late Pliocene Greta Siltstone Formation (I. W. Keyes, pers. comm.).…”

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A pseudodontorn (Pelecaniformes: Pelagornithidae) from the middle Pliocene of Hawera, Taranaki, New Zealand

McKee

1985

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

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The distal portion of a right humerus and the proximal end of a radius, belonging to a 'bony-toothed bird' (family Pelagornithidae), were collected from marine sediments at Hawera, North Island, New Zealand, and are of Waipipian age (middle Pliocene). This is the first record of a pseudodontorn from the North Island, the third for New Zealand. These specimens extend the world geological time range for this family of extinct birds (previously early Eocene to late Miocene) into the middle Pliocene.

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Bone of a presumed odontopterygian bird from the Miocene of New Zealand

Abstract: A partial right humerus of a bird of probable Waiauan (middle to late Miocene) age, from the coastal cliffs of North Canterbury, and tentatively considered to belong to the order Pelicaniformes: sub-order Odontopterygia (bony-toothed birds) is described.

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Pseudotoothed Birds (Aves, Odontopterygiformes) from the Early Tertiary of Morocco

Pseudotoothed Birds (Aves, Odontopterygiformes) from the Early Tertiary of Morocco

A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact

A pseudodontorn (Pelecaniformes: Pelagornithidae) from the middle Pliocene of Hawera, Taranaki, New Zealand

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