- pelagornithids, pseudodontorns, bony-toothed birds, false-toothed
birds or
pseudotooth birds, are a
prehistoric family of
large seabirds.
Their fossil remains...
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Pelagornis is an
extinct genus of
prehistoric pseudotooth birds, a
group of
extinct seabirds.
Species span from the
Oligocene to the
Early Pleistocene...
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later referred to the
pseudotooth or bony-toothed bird family, Pelagornithidae.
Gigantornis is one of the
largest pseudotooth birds, with an inferred...
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Tympanonesiotes is a
somewhat doubtfully valid genus of the
prehistoric pseudotooth birds.
These were
probably rather close relatives of
either pelicans...
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Pseudodontornis is a
rather disputed genus of the
prehistoric pseudotooth birds. The
pseudotooth birds or
pelagornithids were
probably rather close relatives...
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Odontopteryx is a
genus of the
extinct pseudotooth birds or pelagornithids.
These were
probably rather close relatives of
either pelicans and storks,...
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particular of the leg and foot bones,
remains of the
prehistoric pseudotooth birds (Pelagornithidae) may be
mistaken for
those of
extinct albatrosses;...
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Dasornis is a
genus of
prehistoric pseudotooth birds.
These were
probably close relatives of
either pelicans and
storks or waterfowl; they are placed...
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Palaeochenoides is a
genus of the
prehistoric pseudotooth birds of
somewhat doubtful validity.
These were
probably rather close relatives of
either pelicans...
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relatively light body, at up to only 1.9 kg (4.2 lb).
Pelagornithidae or
pseudotooth birds included several species that were
behind only
Argentavis magnificens...
