Tynskya Temporal range: | |
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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) | |
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Tynskya is an extinct genus of messelasturid bird.
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]