Tynskya

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Tynskya
Temporal range: Early Eocene
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Tynskya eocaena
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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 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]

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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.