Heliadornis

Heliadornis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Phaethontiformes
Family:	Phaethontidae
Genus:	†Heliadornis; Olson, 1985
Species
	2, see text

Heliadornis is a genus of prehistoric seabirds related to modern tropicbirds, but native to temperate climates. They lived in the Miocene. Two species have been recognized. Heliadornis ashbyi is known from remains in Maryland in the United States and Antwerp province in Belgium. The latter were from the Brussels–Antwerp motorway between Berchem and Wilrijke.[1] A second species, Heliadornis paratethydicus has been described from Upper Miocene strata in Vösendorf, Austria.[2]

References

Olson, Storrs L.; Walker, Cyril A. (1997). "A trans-Atlantic record of the fossil tropicbird Heliadornis ashbyi (Aves: Phaethontidae) from the Miocene of Belgium" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 110 (4): 624–28.
Mlíkovský, Jiří (1996). "A new tropicbird (Aves: Phaethontidae) from the late Miocene of Austria" (PDF). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie A für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Anthropologie und Prähistorie. 98A: 151–54.

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[1] Olson, Storrs L.; Walker, Cyril A. (1997). "A trans-Atlantic record of the fossil tropicbird Heliadornis ashbyi (Aves: Phaethontidae) from the Miocene of Belgium" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 110 (4): 624–28.

[2] Mlíkovský, Jiří (1996). "A new tropicbird (Aves: Phaethontidae) from the late Miocene of Austria" (PDF). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie A für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Anthropologie und Prähistorie. 98A: 151–54.