†Waltonavis danielsi Mayr and Kitchener 2023 (bird)
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Full reference: G. Mayr and A.C. Kitchener. 2023. New species from the early Eocene London Clay suggest an undetected early Eocene diversity of the Leptosomiformes, an avian clade that includes a living fossil from Madagascar. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 103:585-608
Belongs to Waltonavis according to G. Mayr and A.C. Kitchener 2023
Sister taxon: Waltonavis paraleptosomus
Type specimen: NMS.Z.2021.40.20, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Walton-on-the-Naze, Ypresian, which is in a Ypresian marginal marine claystone in the London Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution: found only at Walton-on-the-Naze, Ypresian
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