†Psittacopes occidentalis Mayr and Kitchener 2022 (bird)
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Full reference: G. Mayr and A.C. Kitchener. 2022. Psittacopedids and zygodactylids: The diverse and species-rich psittacopasserine birds from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK). Historical Biology 35(12):2372-2395
Belongs to Psittacopes according to G. Mayr and A.C. Kitchener 2022
Sister taxon: Psittacopes lepidus
Type specimen: NMS.Z.2021.40.44, 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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