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Waltonortyx
Taxonomy
Waltonortyx was named by Mayr and Kitchener (2024). Its type is Waltonortyx bumbanipodiides.
It was assigned to Waltonortygidae by Mayr and Kitchener (2024).
It was assigned to Waltonortygidae by Mayr and Kitchener (2024).
Species
W. bumbanipodiides (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Waltonortyx Mayr and Kitchener p. 5 |
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G. †Waltonortyx Mayr and Kitchener 2024
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†Waltonortyx bumbanipodiides Mayr and Kitchener 2024
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| G. Mayr and A. C. Kitchener 2024 | In addition to the above-listed features
that distinguish the Waltonortygidae, fam. nov. from the Gallinuloididae, Quercymegapodiidae, Paraortygidae, and crown group Galliformes, the new taxon Waltonortyx, gen. nov. is distinguished from Gallinuloides Eastman, 1900, and Paraortygoides Mayr, 2000, in that the crista deltopectoralis is less dorsally extensive. Differs from a coracoid referred to Bumbanipodius by Zelenkov (2021) in that medial surface of processus acrocoracoideus (that is, the facies articularis clavicularis) forming a medial protrusion (flatter in B. magnus), facies articularis humeralis (coracoid) more laterally projected and with more convex outline (in dorsoventral view), and in that cotyla scapularis proportionally smaller. Distinguished from Bumbanortyx Zelenkov, 2021, in that cotyla scapularis (coracoid) with circular outline (ellipsoid in Bumbanortyx) and processus procoracoideus less developed. Differs from Tegulavis Mourer- Chauviré, Bourdon, Duffaud, Le Roux, and Laurent, 2023, in that facies articularis humeralis of coracoid less laterally projected and sternal margin of crista articularis sternalis markedly concave (straight in Tegulavis). Distinguished from Scopelortyx Mourer-Chauviré, Pickford, and Senut, 2015, in that coracoid with more deeply excavated cotyla scapularis, humerus with proximodistally narrower caput humeri, and second (dorsal) fossa pneumotricipitalis shallower. Direct comparisons with the taxon Argillipes are impeded by the lack of overlap in the known elements (only proximal tarsometatarsi and a referred distal humerus are known from A. aurorum, the type species of the taxon), but compared with a specimen that was likened to A. aurorum by Mayr and Smith (2019), the tuberculum dorsale of the humerus is proximodistally shorter and mediolaterally wider, and the caput humeri is proximodistally somewhat longer. Comparisons with Namaortyx Mourer-Chauviré et al., 2011 and Chambiortyx Mourer-Chauviré et al., 2013 are not possible owing to a lack of overlap in the known skeletal elements. |