Perplexicervix

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Perplexicervix
Temporal range: Eocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Neognathae
Genus: Perplexicervix
Mayr 2010
Type species
Perplexicervix microcephalon
Mayr, 2010
Other species
  • P. paucituberculata

Perplexicervix is a genus of perplexicervicid bird that lived during the Eocene epoch.

Distribution

P. paucituberculata remains hail from the Walton Member of the London Clay Formation and date back to the Ypresian. [1] P. microcephalon appears in the eleventh Mammal-Paleogene zone of Hessen, Germany, its fossils having been found in the Messel Formation. [2]

References

  1. Mayr, Gerald; Carrió, Vicen; Kitchener, Andrew (9 August 2023). "On the "screamer-like" birds from the British London Clay: An archaic anseriform-galliform mosaic and a non-galloanserine "barb-necked" species of Perplexicervix". Palaeontologia Electronica . doi:10.26879/1301 . Retrieved 4 March 2025 via Palaeontologia Electronica.
  2. Mayr, Gerald (2010). "A new avian species with tubercle-bearing cervical vertebrae from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Germany)". Records of the Australian Museum . 62: 21–28. doi: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.62.2010.1537 .