-
proposed in the past.
Whether swimmers or divers, that both
primitive phoenicopteriforms and
their closest relatives, the grebes, were
highly aquatic, indicates...
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insect larvae and snails. This
behavior may have been key in
later phoenicopteriforms developing filterfeeding bills. The
genus includes between five and...
- (Navesink Late Cretaceous?) - charadriiform? gruiform?
Scaniornis -
phoenicopteriform?
Zhylgaia - presbyornithid?
Dakotornis "Graculavidae" gen. et sp....
- posture. It is
possible that Megapaloelodus, much like many
other phoenicopteriforms,
inhabited lakes which at
times may have been
highly saline or brackish...
-
Agnopterus is an
extinct genus of stem-flamingo
phoenicopteriform with
fossil material from France, as well as
possibly England, Kazakhstan, and Brazil...
-
tibiotarsus and
parts of the metacarpals.
Several bones of the
Fayum phoenicopteriform show both
similarities to
derived flamingos as well as to the more...
-
nerve is well-developed and
elliptical like in basal-anseriforms and
phoenicopteriforms. The sca**** is
short with a
slender shaft similar to Palaeolodus...
- water. This
appears to have been an
attractive environment for
early phoenicopteriforms,
given the
presence of vast
numbers of
Palaelodus and more rarely...
-
Tenuicrus magnum Harrison &
Walker 1976] –
phoenicopteriform? †Juncitarsus
Olson &
Feduccia 1980 –
phoenicopteriform?
Laornithidae Cracraft 1973 – charadriiform...
- with
their smaller,
bulbous bills and the
contemporary Palaelodus, a
phoenicopteriform with a straight,
pointed beak. The
nares of
Harrisonavis are elongated...
