A new seabird (Aves, cf. Phaethontidae) from the Lower Eocene phosphates of Morocco |
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| Authors: | Estelle Bourdon Mbarek Amaghzaz |
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| Institution: | a UMR 7179 CNRS, équipe squelette des vertébrés, Collège de France, université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie-Paris-6, 4, place Jussieu, B.C. 19, 75252 Paris cedex 05, France
b Office chérifien des phosphates, centre Minier de Khouribga, Khouribga, Maroc |
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| Abstract: | A proximal part of humerus from the basal Ypresian (lowermost Eocene) of the Ouled Abdoun Basin, Morocco, is described as a new genus and species tentatively assigned to the Phaethontidae (tropicbirds). This fossil possibly represents the oldest record of the Phaethontidae and markedly differs from Lithoptila, a contemporaneous Prophaethontidae from the same locality. This new taxon lived in a tropical climate and was probably an efficient flier with pelagic habits, like extant tropicbirds of the genus Phaethon. |
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| Keywords: | Phaethontidae Prophaethontidae Neornithes Lower Eocene Ouled Abdoun Morocco |
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