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Limicorallus carbunculus
Taxonomy
Limicorallus carbunculus was named by Mayr (2009). Its type specimen is SMF Av 228i, a limb element (right tarsometatarsus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Weisenau, which is in a MN 1 terrestrial horizon in Germany.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2009 | Limicorallus carbunculus Mayr p. 393 figs. Fig. 1 a–d |
| 2010 | Limicorallus carbunculus Göhlich and Mourer-Cauvire p. 62 figs. Table 1 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Limicorallus carbunculus Mayr 2009
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. Mayr 2009 | Distinguished from all other extinct or extant representatives of the Phalacrocoracoidea by its very small size; tarsometatarsus measuring only two-thirds of that of a male of the smallest extant cormorant, the Pygmy Cormorant, P. pygmeus (length 27.1 mm vs. 38.0 mm).
Distinguished from Protoplotus beauforti Lam- brecht 1931 (Protoplotidae) from the Paleocene or Eocene of Sumatra (van Tets et al. 1989) in that the tarsometatarsus is more elongate and smaller (length 27.1 mm vs. 32 mm), with more prominent eminentia intercotylaris, and dorsal ridges of troch- lea metatarsi III converging and not nearly parallel. |
Measurements
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| References: Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875 | |||||