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Presbyornis
Taxonomy
Presbyornis was named by Wetmore (1926). Its type is Presbyornis pervetus. It is the type genus of Presbyornithidae.
It was assigned to Presbyornithinae by Lambrecht (1933); and to Presbyornithidae by Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Wetmore (1960), Carroll (1988), Livezey (1997), Kurochkin et al. (2002), Kurochkin and Dyke (2010) and Tambussi et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Presbyornithinae by Lambrecht (1933); and to Presbyornithidae by Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Wetmore (1960), Carroll (1988), Livezey (1997), Kurochkin et al. (2002), Kurochkin and Dyke (2010) and Tambussi et al. (2019).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1926 | Presbyornis Wetmore p. 396 figs. Plate 27, Figs. 1-20 |
| 1930 | Presbyornis Hay p. 339 |
| 1933 | Presbyornis Lambrecht p. 533 |
| 1940 | Presbyornis Wetmore p. 60 |
| 1956 | Presbyornis Wetmore p. 75 |
| 1959 | Coltonia Hardy p. 106 |
| 1960 | Presbyornis Wetmore p. 28 |
| 1988 | Presbyornis Carroll |
| 1997 | Presbyornis Livezey p. 398 |
| 2002 | Presbyornis Kurochkin et al. p. 8 |
| 2010 | Presbyornis Kurochkin and Dyke |
| 2019 | Presbyornis Tambussi et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Presbyornis Wetmore 1926
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†Presbyornis isoni Olson 1994
†Presbyornis mongoliensis Kurochkin and Dyke 2010
†Presbyornis pervetus Wetmore 1926
†Presbyornis recurvirostrus Hardy 1959
Invalid names: Coltonia Hardy 1959 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, o = order | |||||
| References: Livezey 1997, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Paleocene to the top of the Bumbanian or 58.70000 to 48.60000 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tiffanian | USA (North Dakota) | P. isoni (15000) | |
| Late/Upper Paleocene | Mongolia (Omnogov) | P. mongoliensis (37008) | |
| Late/Upper Paleocene | USA (Maryland) | P. isoni (84046) | |
| Eocene | USA (Utah) | Coltonia recurvirostra (74296) P. pervetus (123112) | |
| Wasatchian | Canada (Nunavut) | P. pervetus (185212) | |
| Bumbanian | Mongolia (Southern Mongolia) | P. mongoliensis (37206) | |
| Wasatchian - Bridgerian | USA (Wyoming) | P. sp. (16134) | |
| Bridgerian | USA (Wyoming) | P. sp. (16296) |