Colius palustris

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Colius palustris
Temporal occurrence
Miocene
Locations
Systematics
Birds (aves)
Mouse birds (Coliiformes)
Mouse birds (Coliidae)
Colius
Colius palustris
Scientific name
Colius palustris
( Milne-Edwards , 1871)

Colius palustris is a fossil bird species from the Miocene of Europe. The type material comes from Sansan , France and consists of the distal end of the right tarsometatarsus and a distal tibiotarsus fragment . In 2000, paleontologist Jacques Chenevalincorrectlyclassified the holotype as a lectotype and added two irrelevant bones as paralectotypes .

Systematics

In 1871 Alphonse Milne-Edwards described the taxon as Necrornis palustris within the monotypic genus Necrornis . He suspected that it could be a species from the relationship of the Turakos (Musophagidae). The French biologist Paul Paris placed the species incertae sedis in the order of the cuckoo birds in 1912 . After the German paleontologist Peter Ballmann discovered similar bone material at La Grive-Saint-Alban, he classified the taxon in the genus Colius within the mouse bird family in 1969 . In 1971 Pierce Brodkorb again transferred this bird to the genus Necrornis . In 1985, Storrs Lovejoy Olson agreed with Peter Ballmann that the material from La Grive-Saint-Alban represents a bird from the mouse bird family and synonymous the generic name Necrornis given by Milne-Edwards with Colius .

literature

  • Paul Paris: Oiseaux fossiles de France . Revue Française d'Ornithology. 37, 1912, pp. 283-298.
  • Kálmán Lambrecht: Handbook of Palaeornithology. Borntraeger Brothers, Berlin 1933, p. 606.
  • Peter Ballmann: Les oiseaux miocènes de La Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère). In: Géobios. 2, 1969, pp. 157-204.
  • Storrs Olson: The Fossil Record of Birds. In: Avian Biology. Volume 8, 1985, pp. 79-238.
  • Jacques Cheneval: L'avifaune de Sansan. In: L. Ginsburg (Ed.): La faune miocène de Sansan (Gers) et son environment. In: Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris). 183, 2000, pp. 321-388.
  • Jirí Mlíkovský: Cenozoic Birds of the World. Part 1: Europe . Ninox Press, Prague 2002. (PDF, online)