Heliadornis
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Order: | Phaethontiformes
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Family: | Phaethontidae Brandt, 1840
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Genus: | Heliadornis Olson, 1985
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Heliadornis is a genus of prehistoric seabird related to living tropicbirds, but native to temperate climates. They lived in the Miocene. Two species have been recognized. H. ashbyi is known from remains in Maryland in North American and Antwerp province in Belgium. The latter were from the Brussels-Antwerp motorway between Berchem and Wilrijke.[1] A second species, H. paratethydicus has been described from Upper Miocene strata in Vosendorf, Austria.[2]
References
- ^ Olson, Storrs L.; Walker, Cyril A. (1997). "A trans-Atlantic record of the fossil tropicbird Heliadornis ashbyi (Aves: Phaethontidae) from the Miocene of Belgium" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 110 (4): 624–28.
- ^ Mlíkovský, Jiří (1996). "A new tropicbird (Aves: Phaethontidae) from the late Miocene of Austria" (PDF). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie A für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Anthropologie und Prähistorie. 98A: 151–54.