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Didunculus placopedetes (Tongan tooth-billed pigeon)

Osteichthyes - Columbiformes - Columbidae

Taxonomy
Didunculus placopedetes was named by Steadman (2006). Its type specimen is UF 50641, a mandible, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is That Cave, Eua, which is in a Holocene cave siliciclastic in Tonga.

Entered
by M. Clapham on 2018-06-26; modified by M. Clapham on 2018-06-28

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2006Didunculus placopedetes Steadman p. 235 figs. 3-5
2015Didunculus placopedetes Worthy et al. p. 224
2019Didunculus placopedetes Worthy and Burley

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
RankNameAuthor
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Neognathae(Pycraft 1900)
—NeoavesSibley et al. 1988
—Terrestrornithes
—Dendrornithes
—AnomalogonatesGarrod 1874
—CoccygesHuxley 1867
superorderPsittacimorphae
orderColumbiformesLatham 1790
familyColumbidae
subfamilyDidunculinaeGray 1848
genusDidunculusPeale 1848
speciesplacopedetes

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.

†Didunculus placopedetes Steadman 2006 [Tongan tooth-billed pigeon]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available