Liptornis
| Liptornis hesternus Temporal range: Middle Miocene
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| Order: | incerti ordinis
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| Family: | incertae familiae
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| Species: | L. cuvierii
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| Liptornis hesternus Ameghino, 1894
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Liptornis hesternus is a fossil bird of uncertain affinities. It was described by Argentine palaeontologist Florentino Ameghino in 1894 from a large cervical vertebra from the Middle Miocene of Argentina. At the time it was referred to the Pelecanidae, though this is questionable. Lambrecht in 1933 referred it only to the superfamily Sulides without placing it in a family.[2]
References
- ^ Ameghino, F. (1894). "Sur les oiseaux fossiles de Patagonie; et la faune mammalogique des couches à Pyrotherium". Boletin del Instituto Geographico Argentino. 15: 501–660.
- ^ Olson, Storrs L. (1985). The fossil record of birds, Chapter 2 of “Avian Biology”, vol.VIII, eds: Donald S. Farner, James R. King, & Kenneth C. Parkes. Academic Press. p. 201. ISBN 0-12-249408-3.
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