Definition of Plotopterid. Meaning of Plotopterid. Synonyms of Plotopterid

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Definition of Plotopterid

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Meaning of Plotopterid from wikipedia

- sternum of plotopterids differ significantly from those of penguins, so comparisons in terms of function may not be entirely accurate. Plotopterids are regarded...
- to Procellariiformes has been suggested. Some think the penguin-like plotopterids (usually considered relatives of cormorants and anhingas) may actually...
- gannets, and boobies. This genus included the largest North American plotopterids. Its remains can be found in Late Eocene to Late Oligocene rocks from...
- Hokkaidornis is an extinct genus of penguin-like plotopterid from the Late Oligocene of Hokkaido, ****an. The first Hokkaidornis remains were discovered...
- Storrs L. Olson and Hasegawa Yoshikazu identified them as those of plotopterids, but their abundance and diversity complicated their identification as...
- by Goedert and Gerald Mayr as belonging to a new genus and species of plotopterid, which they named Olympidytes thieli, based on the holotype SMF Av 608...
- occupied the site, is presented by Cooper et al. (2025). The oldest plotopterid skull reported to date is described from the Eocene Lincoln Cr**** Formation...
- (PDF) on 27 September 2007. Mayr, Gerald (February 2005). "Tertiary plotopterids (Aves, Plotopteridae) and a novel hypothesis on the phylogenetic relationships...
- as the type genus of the new clade Tonsalinae, comprising all derived Plotopterids, aside from the primitive and fragmentary Phocavis and the small-sized...
- remains that the bird was a medium-sized plotopterid, smaller than the large genera of ****anese tonsalin plotopterids Copepteryx and Hokkaidornis, but larger...