Tynskya

Tynskya Temporal range: Early Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Tynskya eocaena
Scientific 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. brevitarsusMayr & Kitchener, 2023 †T. crassitarsusMayr & Kitchener, 2023 †T. waltonensisMayr, 2021

Tynskya is an extinct genus of messelasturid bird.

Distribution

T. eocaena, the type species, is known from fossils found in the North American Green River Formation. ^[1] The Walton Member of the London Clay Formation of England contains the species T. waltonensis, ^[2] along with the more recently described T. brevitarsus and T. crassitarsus. ^[3]

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. Bibcode:2021PalZ...95..337M. doi: 10.1007/s12542-020-00541-8 . ISSN   1867-6812.
3. Mayr, Gerald; Kitchener, Andrew C. (28 February 2023). "The Vastanavidae and Messelasturidae (Aves) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen . 307 (2): 113–139. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2023/1119. ISSN   0077-7749 . Retrieved 4 March 2025– via Schweizerbart Science Publishers.