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Piscator tenuirostris Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Suliformes |
Family: | Phalacrocoracidae |
Genus: | † Piscator |
Species: | †P. tenuirostris
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Binomial name | |
†Piscator tenuirostris |
Piscator tenuirostris is an extinct species of cormorant-like bird in the genus Piscator.
Piscator tenuirostris is known from an incomplete rostrum, the anterior end of a premaxilla, found in Hordle, England, in formations dating to the Priabonian, the final age of the Eocene Epoch. [1] [2] This holotype is now at the British Museum. [3]
It was initially described by Colin Harrison and Cyril A. Walker in 1976, and placed in the family phalacrocoracidae. [4] It was placed in class Aves incertae sedis by Jiří Mlíkovský in 2002. [2]
A similar sample was found in the Late Eocene-early Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation in Faiyum, Egypt, but whether this sample represents P. tenuirostris, another Piscator species, or a different phalacrocoracid is unknown. [1]
P. tenuirostris is the oldest discovered cormorant-like bird in the fossil record. [1] It is the type specimen of its genus, and the only species of Piscator currently described. [1] [2] Other samples, including some in private collections, represent prehistoric phalacrocoracids, but have not been described to more specific classifications. [1]
It has been suggested that
Piscator (bird) be
merged into this article. (
Discuss) Proposed since April 2024. |
Piscator tenuirostris Temporal range:
| |
---|---|
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Suliformes |
Family: | Phalacrocoracidae |
Genus: | † Piscator |
Species: | †P. tenuirostris
|
Binomial name | |
†Piscator tenuirostris |
Piscator tenuirostris is an extinct species of cormorant-like bird in the genus Piscator.
Piscator tenuirostris is known from an incomplete rostrum, the anterior end of a premaxilla, found in Hordle, England, in formations dating to the Priabonian, the final age of the Eocene Epoch. [1] [2] This holotype is now at the British Museum. [3]
It was initially described by Colin Harrison and Cyril A. Walker in 1976, and placed in the family phalacrocoracidae. [4] It was placed in class Aves incertae sedis by Jiří Mlíkovský in 2002. [2]
A similar sample was found in the Late Eocene-early Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation in Faiyum, Egypt, but whether this sample represents P. tenuirostris, another Piscator species, or a different phalacrocoracid is unknown. [1]
P. tenuirostris is the oldest discovered cormorant-like bird in the fossil record. [1] It is the type specimen of its genus, and the only species of Piscator currently described. [1] [2] Other samples, including some in private collections, represent prehistoric phalacrocoracids, but have not been described to more specific classifications. [1]