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currently unnamed SGPIMH MEV1
specimen from the mid-Eocene
Messel Pit site.
Lithornithids had long, slender,
bills for probing. They
closely resembled modern...
- ("fissure bird") is a
genus of
extinct bird from the
Paleocene of Germany. A
lithornithid, it was
closely related to
modern ratites, but it was a
capable flyer...
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Alcediniformes Vanolimicola, a
possible charadriiform A
currently unnamed lithornithid, a sandpiper-like paleognath, the
first record of its kind in Middle...
- non-avian and
avian dinosaurs such as dromaeosaurids, enantiornithes, and
lithornithids.
Muscle tissues can
display irisdescence. Both the body and the train...
-
retain smaller-bodied, omnivorous, and
volant lifestyles. Flight-capable
lithornithids from the
Paleocene and
Eocene epochs appear to have been structurally...
-
known until the
Cenozoic (though
birds occasionally interpreted as
lithornithids occur in
Albian appalachian sites), but
there have been many reports...
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Calciavis is an
extinct genus of bird from the
Eocene of Wyoming. It is a
lithornithid, a
member of a
lineage of
flying palaeognaths,
distantly related to modern...
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Abundance Notes Image †Lithornithidae †Calciavis †C.
grandei Fossil Lake A
lithornithid. †Pseudocrypturus †P.
cercanaxius Fossil Lake A
lithornithid....
- narrow-billed
Diogenornis and Palaeotis,
compared to the s****bird-like
lithornithids, and
could imply similar animalivorous diets.
Ratites are different...
- that the
feathers on the head, tail, and wing
primaries of the
Eocene lithornithid Calciavis were iridescent,
likely glossy black.
Additionally tested feathers...
