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other named taxa of
pseudotooth birds might belong in
Pelagornis too. The type
species Pelagornis miocaenus is
known from
Aquitanian (Early Miocene) sediments...
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although it was surp****ed in
wingspan after the 2014
description of
Pelagornis sandersi,
which is
estimated to have
possessed wings some 20%
longer than...
- – 2–3 species?
Pelagornis? cf.
Osteodontornis (Capadare
Middle Miocene of
Cueva del Zumbador, Venezuela) cf. Osteodontornis/
Pelagornis (?Middle/Late Miocene...
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known to have existed, only
likely exceeded by
measurement of
wingspan by
Pelagornis sandersi,
discovered in 1983.
Fossil remains of this
species have been...
- 2013
study on the
growth pattern and
structure of the
pseudoteeth in
Pelagornis mauretanicus shows more
support of
Odontoanserae as both
groups have "soft...
- bird
known 6.7 m –
length of a
Microchaetus rappi 7.4 m –
wingspan of
Pelagornis, the bird with
longest wingspan ever. 7.5 m –
approximate length of the...
- Buffrénil, V. (2013). "Structure and
Growth Pattern of
Pseudoteeth in
Pelagornis mauretanicus (Aves, Odontopterygiformes, Pelagornithidae)". PLOS ONE....
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include a
giant terror bird, an
armored glyptodont, the
giant seabird Pelagornis sandersi, a hyaenodont, and
fossil crocodilians of the era, especially...
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quite exactly one
century after the
first species of the
Pelagornithidae (
Pelagornis miocaenus) was. O. orri was
named after Santa Barbara Museum of Natural...
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metres (9.8 ft) tall. The
largest wingspan of all time
likely belonged to
Pelagornis sandersi at
roughly 5.2 m (17 ft). P.
sandersi was also
likely the largest...
