Rallicrex kolozsvarensis
| Rallicrex kolozsvarensis | ||||||||
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| Rupelium to Burdigalium | ||||||||
| 33.9 to 15.97 million years | ||||||||
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| Rallicrex kolozsvarensis | ||||||||
| Lambrecht , 1933 |
Rallicrex kolozsvarensis is a fossil rallen species that lived between the Rupelian ( Oligocene ) and the Burdigalian ( Miocene ). For a long time it was considered the only representative of the genus Rallicrex until 1991 when the taxon Rallicrex polgardiensis was placed in this genus. According to the Czech zoologist Jiří Mlíkovský , this classification is uncertain. The type material, which consists of the distal two-thirds of the left tarsometatarsus and the crushed distal end of the tibiotarsus , was discovered by Kálmán Lambrecht in the Corbulabank (rock layer made up of the fossils of the Corbula mussel) south of the citadel at Cluj-Napoca (formerly Kolozsvár) in Transylvania , Romania and is located in the Museum of the Royal Hungarian Geological Institute in Budapest.
etymology
The generic name is based on Lambrecht's assumption that this species is morphologically between the genera Crex ( corncrake ) and Rallus . The type epithet refers to the terra typica .
Individual evidence
- ^ Jirí Mlíkovský: Cenozoic Birds of the World. Part 1: Europe . Ninox Press, Prague. 2002. ( PDF, Online ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2011 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
literature
- Storrs Olson: A synopsis on the fossil Rallidae. In: Sidney Dillon Ripley: Rails of the World - A Monograph of the Family Rallidae . Codline. Boston 1977. ISBN 0874748046
- Kálmán Lambrecht: Handbook of Palaeornithology. Borntraeger brothers, Berlin 1933