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Palaelodus aotearoa

Reptilia - Phoenicopteriformes - Palaelodidae

Taxonomy
Palaelodus aotearoa was named by Worthy et al. (2010). Its type specimen is NMNZ S.51799, a limb element (distal right tibiotarsus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is HH1b Home Hills Station (H41/f90), which is in an Altonian lacustrine - large sandstone in the Bannockburn Formation of New Zealand.