Pelecanus odessanus

Pelecanus odessanus is a large species of fossil pelican, described in 1886 from Late Miocene fossil material since lost, from Novaja Slobodka, near Odesa in the Ukraine.[2] With a tarsometatarsus length of 150 mm (5.9 in), it was about the same size as Pelecanus schreiberi from the Early Pliocene of North America.[2]

Pelecanus odessanus
Temporal range: Late Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Pelecanidae
Genus: Pelecanus
Species:
P. odessanus
Binomial name
Pelecanus odessanus
Widhalm, 1886[1]

References

  1. Widhalm, J. (1886). "Die fossilen Vogel-Knochen der Odessaer-Steppen-Kalk-Steinbrüche an der Neuen Slobodka bei Odessa". Schriften der Neurussische Gesellschaft der Naturforscher zu Odessa. 10: 3–9.
  2. Olson, Storrs L. (1999). "A new species of pelican (Aves: Pelecanidae) from the Lower Pliocene of North Carolina and Florida" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 112 (3): 503–509. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2022.


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