Rhegminornis calobates Wetmore 1943 (shorebird)

Aves - Charadriiformes - Rhegminornithidae

Full reference: A. Wetmore. 1943. Fossil birds from the Tertiary deposits of Florida. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club 22:59-68

Belongs to Rhegminornis according to A. Wetmore 1960

See also Wetmore 1943 and Wetmore 1956

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MCZ 2331, a limb element (tarsometatarsus). Its type locality is Thomas Farm, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial sandstone/claystone in the Alachua Formation of Florida.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Thomas Farm

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.