Paractiornis perpusillus Wetmore 1930 (shorebird)

Aves - Charadriiformes - Glareolidae

Full reference: A. Wetmore. 1930. Two fossil birds from the Miocene of Nebraska. Condor 32(3):152-154

Belongs to Paractiornis according to G. Mayr and R. Smith 2001

See also Lambrecht 1933, Olson and Steadman 1979, Wetmore 1930, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MCZ 2191, a limb element (left tarso-metatarsus). Its type locality is Agate Springs Quarries, which is in a Harrisonian channel sandstone in the Marsland Formation of Nebraska.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Agate Springs Quarries

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