Tynskya

Tynskya
Temporal range: Early Eocene
Tynskya eocaena
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Eufalconimorphae
Family: †Messelasturidae
Genus: †Tynskya
Mayr, 2000
Type species
†Tynskya eocaena
(Mayr, 2000)
Other species
  • †T. brevitarsus Mayr & Kitchener, 2023
  • †T. crassitarsus Mayr & Kitchener, 2023
  • †T. waltonensis Mayr, 2021

Tynskya is a genus of messelasturid bird. It is known from a fossil of the North American Green River Formation and the London Clay Formation of England, both from the early Eocene.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Mayr, G. (2000) A new raptor-like bird from the Lower Eocene of North America and Europe. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 80:59–65.
  2. ^ Mayr, G. (2021) A partial skeleton of a new species of Tynskya Mayr, 2000 (Aves, Messelasturidae) from the London Clay highlights the osteological distinctness of a poorly known early Eocene "owl/parrot mosaic". PalZ. 95 (2): 337–357. doi:10.1007/s12542-020-00541-8. ISSN 1867-6812.
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