Liptornis

Liptornis hesternus
Temporal range: Middle Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: incerti ordinis
Family: incertae familiae
Genus: Liptornis
Ameghino, 1894[1]
Species: L. hesternus
Binomial name
Liptornis hesternus
Ameghino, 1894

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 Patagonia. At the time it was referred to the Pelecanidae, though this is questionable. In his 1933 palaeornithological review, Lambrecht referred it only to the superfamily Sulides without placing it in a family.[2] A later study has suggested family Anhingidae.[3]

References

  1. Ameghino, F. (1894). "Sur les oiseaux fossiles de Patagonie; et la faune mammalogique des couches à Pyrotherium". Boletin del Instituto Geográfico Argentino. 15: 501–660.
  2. Olson, Storrs L. (1985). "The fossil record of birds". In Donald S. Farner, James R. King, & Kenneth C. Parkes, eds. Avian Biology, vol. VIII. Academic Press. p. 201. ISBN 0-12-249408-3.
  3. "†Liptornis (darter)". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 22 February 2016.


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