Fluvioviridavis michaeldanielsi Mayr and Kitchener 2025 (bird)

Aves - Neornithes - Fluvioviridavidae

Full reference: G. Mayr and A. C. Kitchener. 2025. The non‑apodiform Strisores (potoos, nightjars and allied birds) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton‑on‑the‑Naze. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 105:773-793

Belongs to Fluvioviridavis according to G. Mayr and A. C. Kitchener 2025

Sister taxa: Fluvioviridavis nazensis, Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus

Type specimen: NMS.Z.2021.40.168, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Walton-on-the-Naze, general, which is in a Ypresian marine horizon in the London Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Walton-on-the-Naze, general

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