Sericuloides marynguyenae Nguyen 2023 (perching bird)

Aves - Passeriformes - Ptilonorhynchidae

Full reference: J.M.T. Nguyen. 2023. The earliest record of bowerbirds (Passeriformes, Ptilonorhynchidae) from the Oligo-Miocene of northern Australia. Alcheringa

Belongs to Sericuloides according to J.M.T. Nguyen 2023

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: QM F57971 (AR19718), a partial skeleton. Its type locality is White Hunter Site, which is in a Chattian terrestrial horizon in the Carl Creek Limestone Formation of Australia.

Ecology: volant frugivore

Distribution: found only at White Hunter Site

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