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English: Overview of selected skeletal elements of Waltonavis specimens from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, UK; all fossils shown to scale. a Holotype of Waltonavis paraleptosomus, gen. et sp. nov. (NMS.Z.2021.40.16; pterygoid, quadrate, coracoid, scapula, sternum, and tarsometatarsi). b Specimen tentatively referred to W. paraleptosomus (NMS.Z.2021.40.19; quadrate, pygostyle, scapula, coracoids, humerus, carpometacarpus, tarsometatarsus, and pedal phalanges). c W. paraleptosomus (NMS.Z.2021.40.17; coracoid, proximal carpometacarpus, tarsometatarsus, and pedal phalanges). d W. paraleptosomus (NMS.Z.2021.40.18; right tarsometatarsus of a juvenile individual). e Holotype of Waltonavis danielsi, gen. et sp. nov. (NMS.Z.2021.40.20; atlas, pygostyle, coracoid, scapula, humeri, radius, right ulna, proximal and distal left ulna, carpometacarpus, os carpi ulnare, proximal tibiotarsus, and tarsometatarsus). f–h Specimens identified as Waltonavis sp. (f NMS.Z.2021.40.21; partial, beak, quadrate, both humeri, coracoid, furcula, os carpi ulnare, partial ulna, tibiotarsus, and tarsometatarsus; g NMS.Z.2021.40.22; both coracoids, cranial end of right scapula, proximal end of left humerus; h NMS.Z.2021.40.23; proximal and distal ends of right tarsometatarsus, atlas, basiurohyal, and some pedal phalanges). mfv foramen vasculare proximale. Scale bars: 10 mm |
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| Source | New species from the early Eocene London Clay suggest an undetected early Eocene diversity of the Leptosomiformes, an avian clade that includes a living fossil from Madagascar |
| Author | Gerald Mayr & Andrew C. Kitchener |
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