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- The Pelagornithidae, commonly called pelagornithids, pseudodontorns, bony-toothed birds, false-toothed birds or pseudotooth birds, are a prehistoric family...
- Protodontopteryx is a genus of pelagornithid (pseudotooth bird) that lived in New Zealand roughly 62 million years ago, during the early Paleocene epoch...
- albatross; subsequent researchers have speculated that it could be a pelagornithid; however, its affinities remain uncertain. The genus name Manu is Māori...
- Richard Paul (2019). "Oldest, smallest and phylogenetically most basal pelagornithid, from the early Paleocene of New Zealand, sheds light on the evolutionary...
- Cretaceous And Paleogene Of Antarctica: New Records Of Ratites And Pelagornithid Birds" (PDF). Polish Polar Research. 33 (3): 239–258. Bibcode:2012PPolR...
- Odontopteryx is a genus of the extinct pseudotooth birds or pelagornithids. These were probably rather close relatives of either pelicans and storks, or...
- flying birds to attain greater size, such as pelagornithids and pelecaniformes. The Paleocene pelagornithid Protodontopteryx was quite small compared to...
- upright stance rather than the sprawled legs of modern crocodiles. Pelagornithid seabirds have serrated beaks that resemble teeth and have been recovered...
- between the jaw structure of ichthyornitheans and pelagornithids. The study still classifies pelagornithids as neognaths based on a few post-cranial features...
- animals, including fossils of a shearwater and the "pseudo-toothed" pelagornithid Osteodontornis, as well as a porpoise and fish, alongside fossils of...