Minutornis primoscenoides Mayr and Kitchener 2022 (bird)

Aves - Psittacopasseres

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 Minutornis according to G. Mayr and A.C. Kitchener 2022

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NMS.2021.40.62, 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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