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Cyphornis is a
genus of the
prehistoric pseudotooth birds.
These were
probably rather close relatives of
either pelicans and storks, or of waterfowl,...
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taxonomy is not well-resolved. An earlier-described
pseudotooth bird,
Cyphornis magnus from
Vancouver Island (Canada), was
believed to be of
Eocene age...
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Gastornis Dromornithidae? †Pelagornithidae
Aequornis Caspiodontornis Cyphornis Dasornis Gigantornis Laornis?
Lutetodontopteris Macrodontopteryx Manu...
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Gastornis Dromornithidae? †Pelagornithidae
Aequornis Caspiodontornis Cyphornis Dasornis Gigantornis Laornis?
Lutetodontopteris Macrodontopteryx Manu...
- needed] cf.
Dasornis (Late Eocene/Early
Oligocene of Oregon, US) –
Cyphornis? cf.
Macrodontopteryx (Early
Oligocene of Hamstead, England) – may belong...
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Gastornis Dromornithidae? †Pelagornithidae
Aequornis Caspiodontornis Cyphornis Dasornis Gigantornis Laornis?
Lutetodontopteris Macrodontopteryx Manu...
- Meanwhile, as a
presumed pelican relative, P. mioce**** was
allied with
Cyphornis (another
pseudotooth bird,
known only from a
proximal left tarsometatarsus)...
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Gastornis Dromornithidae? †Pelagornithidae
Aequornis Caspiodontornis Cyphornis Dasornis Gigantornis Laornis?
Lutetodontopteris Macrodontopteryx Manu...
- with P.
miocaenus in that respect. If the
Oregon fossils are
related to
Cyphornis and/or Osteodontornis, and if the
traits as
found in P.
miocaenus and...
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Gastornis Dromornithidae? †Pelagornithidae
Aequornis Caspiodontornis Cyphornis Dasornis Gigantornis Laornis?
Lutetodontopteris Macrodontopteryx Manu...
