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Telmabates

Telmabates
Temporal range: Eocene,
48.6–38.2 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Anserimorphae
Family: †Presbyornithidae
Genus: †Telmabates
Howard, 1955
Species:
†T. antiquus
Binomial name
†Telmabates antiquus
Howard, 1955

Telmabates is an extinct genus of presbyornithid[1] bird from the Eocene Bird Clay Locality of the Sarmiento Formation of Chubut Province, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, T. antiquus.[2]

Telmabates antiquus was named and described by Howard (1955).[2] A second species, T. howardae was named by Cracraft (1970),[3] but De Mendoza, Degrange & Tambussi (2024) moved T. howardae to the new species Wunketru howardae as they found the species to be separate from Telmabates.[4]

References

  1. ^ E. N. Kurochkin, G. J. Dyke, and A. A. Karhu. (2002). A new presbyornithid bird (Aves, Anseriformes) from the Late Cretaceous of southern Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 3386:1-11
  2. ^ a b H. Howard. (1955). A new wading bird from the Eocene of Patagonia. American Museum Novitates 1710:1-25
  3. ^ Cracraft, Joel (1970). "A New Species of Telmabates (Phoenicopteriformes) from the Lower Eocene of Patagonia". The Condor. 72 (4): 479–480. doi:10.2307/1366403. ISSN 0010-5422. JSTOR 1366403.
  4. ^ De Mendoza, Ricardo Santiago; Degrange, Federico Javier; Tambussi, Claudia Patricia (2024). "An assessment of the anseriform affinities of "Telmabates" howardae". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 135. 104786. Bibcode:2024JSAES.13504786D. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2024.104786. S2CID 267159455.
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