Scaniornis
| Scaniornis Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
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| Order: | |
| Genus: | †Scaniornis Dames, 1890
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| Species: | †S. lundgreni
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| Binomial name | |
| †Scaniornis lundgreni Dames, 1890
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Scaniornis is a prehistoric
Middle Paleocene
: c. 65–59 million years ago).
It is known from a partial
Mediterranean
.
It appears to be somewhat similar to
paraphyletic and has no standing in systematics
anymore.
The presumed relative Parascaniornis is now known to be a
neornithine
are not closely related at all.
Scaniornis was sometimes united with the
Galloanserae. In any case it was subsequently not considered close to Scaniornis anymore but rather united with the supposed "Cretaceous proto-flamingos" "Parascaniornis" and Torotix, none of which seems even reasonably close to flamingos today.[2]
Footnotes
References
- Mlíkovský, Jirí (2002). Cenozoic Birds of the World, Part 1: Europe (PDF). Prague: Ninox Press.
- Sibley, Charles G.; Corbin, Kendall W.; Haavie, Joan H. (1969). "The Relationships of the Flamingos as Indicated by the Egg-White Proteins and Hemoglobins" (PDF). JSTOR 1366077.
