Name - Plotopteridae

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:93664 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Plotopteridae Howard 1969

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Family

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• First record of a tarsometatarsus of Tonsala hildegardae (Plotopteridae) and other avian remains from the late Eocene/early Oligocene of Washington State (USA).
• New species of Plotopteridae (Aves) from the Oligocene Ashiya Group of northern Kyushu, Japan.
• Early Plotopteridae specimens (Aves) from the Itanoura and Kakinoura Formations (latest Eocene to early Oligocene), Saikai, Nagasaki Prefecture, western Japan.
• New late Eocene and Oligocene plotopterid fossils from Washington State (USA), with a revision of 'Tonsala' buchanani (Aves, Plotopteridae).
• Nearly complete late Eocene skull from the North Pacific elucidates the cranial morphology and affinities of the penguin-like Plotopteridae.

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