Aves - Procellariiformes - Pandiomedeidae
Full reference: D. T. Ksepka, A. J. D. Tennyson, M. D. Richards and R. E. Fordyce. 2023. Stem albatrosses wandered far: a new species of Plotornis (Aves, Pan-Diomedeidae) from the earliest Miocene of New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Belongs to Plotornis according to D. T. Ksepka et al. 2023
See also Robinson et al. 2024
Sister taxa: Plotornis avernensis, Plotornis delfortrii, Plotornis graculoides
Type specimen: OU 22690, a partial skeleton (partial skull, cervical vertebra, right humerus lacking proximal end, shaft of left humerus, nearly complete left radius, proximal end of right and left ulna, p). Its type locality is Hakataramea Quarry, Aquitanian, Mount Harris Fm., which is in an Aquitanian marine horizon in the Mount Harris Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution: found only at Hakataramea Quarry, Aquitanian, Mount Harris Fm.
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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