Palaelodidae

Palaelodidae is a family of extinct birds in the group Phoenicopteriformes, which today is represented only by the flamingos.[1] They have been described as "swimming flamingos."

Palaelodids
Reconstructed skeleton of Palaelodus ambiguus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Phoenicopteriformes
Family: Palaelodidae
Stejneger, 1885
Genera

Adelalopus
Palaelodus
Megapaloelodus

They can be considered evolutionarily, and ecologically, intermediate between flamingos and grebes.[2]

Three genera are recognised:[3][4]

  • Adelalopus Mayr & Smith 2002 called the "stout-legged flamingos" (Borgloon Early Oligocene of Hoogbutsel, Belgium)[5]
    • Adelalopus hoogbutseliensis Mayr & Smith 2002
  • Palaelodus Milne-Edwards 1863 [Pliogrus Lambrecht 1933] (Middle Oligocene -? Middle Pleistocene)
    • P. ambiguus Milne-Edwards 1863 [Grus problematica Milne-Edwards 1871; Probalearica problematica (Milne-Edwards 1871); Palaelodus gracilipes Milne-Edwards 1863; Palaelodus crassipes Milne-Edwards 1863; Paloelodus minutus (sic) Milne-Edwards 1868; Grus miocenicus Grigorescu & Kessler 1977]
    • P. aotearoa Worthy et al. 2010
    • P. germanicus (Lambrecht 1933) [Pliogrus germanicus Lambrecht 1933]
    • P. kurochkini Zelenkov 2013
    • P. pledgei Baird & Vickers-Rich 1998
    • P. wilsoni Baird & Vickers-Rich 1998
  • Megapaloelodus Miller 1944 (Late Oligocene - Early Pliocene)
    • M. conectens (Miller 1944)
    • M. peiranoi Agnolin 2009
    • M. goliath (Milne Edwards 1863) Cheneval 1983c [Paloelodus goliath (sic) Milne-Edwards 1868]
    • M. opsigonus Brodkorb 1961

References

  1. Mayr, Gerald (2004). "Morphological evidence for sister group relationship between flamingos (Aves: Phoenicopteridae) and grebes (Podicipedidae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 140 (2): 157–169. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00094.x. ISSN 0024-4082. Retrieved November 3, 2009.
  2. Mayr, Gerald (2006). "The contribution of fossils to the reconstruction of the higher-level phylogeny of birds" (PDF). Species, Phylogeny and Evolution. 3: 59–64. ISSN 1098-660X. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
  3. Haaramo, Mikko (2007). "Phoenicopteriformes – flamingoes". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  4. "Taxonomic lists- Aves". Paleofile.com (net, info). Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  5. Gál, Erika; Hir, János; Kessler, Eugén; Kókay, József; Venczel, Márton. "Középsõ-miocén õsmaradványok a Mátraszõlõs, Rákóczi-kápolna alatti útbevágásból. II. A Mátraszõlõs 2. lelõhely" [Middle Miocene fossils from the section of the road at the Rákóczi Capel, Mátraszõlõs. II. Locality Mátraszõlõs 2.] (PDF). Folia Historico Naturalia Musei Matraensis (in Hungarian and English): 39–75. Retrieved 28 July 2011.


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