Perplexicervix
| Perplexicervix Temporal range:
| |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Neognathae |
| Genus: | † Mayr 2010 |
| Type species | |
| †Perplexicervix microcephalon Mayr, 2010
| |
| Other species | |
| |
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
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
- ^ a b Mayr, Gerald; Carrió, Vicen; Kitchener, Andrew (9 August 2023). "On the "screamer-like" birds from the British London Clay: An archaic anseriform-galliform mosaic and a non-galloanserine "barb-necked" species of Perplexicervix". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/1301. Retrieved 4 March 2025 – via Palaeontologia Electronica.
- ^ Mayr, Gerald (2010). "A new avian species with tubercle-bearing cervical vertebrae from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Germany)". Records of the Australian Museum. 62: 21–28. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.62.2010.1537.