Perplexicervix
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| Perplexicervix Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Neognathae |
| Genus: | †Perplexicervix Mayr 2010 |
| Type species | |
| †Perplexicervix microcephalon Mayr, 2010
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Perplexicervix is a genus of perplexicervicid bird that lived during the Eocene epoch. Its affinities are uncertain but similarities with Otidiformes were noted in tentatively assigned postcranial remains.[1]
Distribution
[edit | edit source]P. paucituberculata remains hail from the Walton Member of the London Clay Formation and date back to the Ypresian.[1] P. microcephalon appears in the eleventh Mammal-Paleogene zone of Hessen, Germany, its fossils having been found in the Messel Formation.[2]
References
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