Fluvioviridavis

Fluvioviridavis Temporal range: Early Eocene, (Ypresian) PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Holotype of F. platyrhamphus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Family:	† Fluvioviridavidae Mayr, 2005 [1]
Genus:	† Fluvioviridavis Mayr & Daniels, 2001 [2]
Type species
†Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus Mayr & Daniels, 2001
Other species
†F. michaeldanielsi Mayr & Kitchener, 2024 †F. nazensis Mayr & Kitchener, 2024

Fluvioviridavis is an extinct genus of bird from the Early Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming (United States) and London Clay Formation of the United Kingdom. ^[3] There are three known species: F. platyrhamphus from the Green River and F. michaeldanielsi and F. nazensis from the London Clay. Fluvioviridavis is the only genus currently named in the monotypic family Fluvioviridavidae. ^[4]

Second known specimen of F. platyrhamphus

References

1. Gerald Mayr (2005). "A Fluvioviridavis-like Bird from the Middle Eocene of Messel, Germany". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 42 (11): 2021–2037. Bibcode:2005CaJES..42.2021M. doi:10.1139/e05-060.
2. Mayr, G. & Daniels, M. 2001. "A new short-legged landbird from the early Eocene of Wyoming and contemporaneous European sites". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 46 (3): 393-402
3. Nesbitt, S. J.; Ksepka, D. T.; Clarke, J. A. (2011). Iwaniuk, Andrew (ed.). "Podargiform Affinities of the Enigmatic Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus and the Early Diversification of Strisores ("Caprimulgiformes" + Apodiformes)". PLOS ONE. 6 (11) e26350. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...626350N. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026350 . PMC   3227577 . PMID   22140427.
4. Mayr, Gerald; Kitchener, Andrew C. (2024-06-07). "The non-apodiform Strisores (potoos, nightjars and allied birds) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. doi: 10.1007/s12549-024-00610-9 . ISSN   1867-1594.

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