Earliest fossils of giant-sized bony-toothed birds (Aves: Pelagornithidae) from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Kloess, Peter A., Poust, Ashley W., Stidham, Thomas A.
• Other Authors: National Natural Science Foundation of China
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: Multidisciplinary; Antarctic; Seymour; Seymour Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75248-6; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75248-6.pdf; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75248-6

Abstract While pelagornithid or ‘bony-toothed’ bird fossils representing multiple species are known from Antarctica, a new dentary fragment of a pelagornithid bird from the middle Eocene Submeseta Formation on Seymour Island, Antarctica represents a species with a body size on par with the largest k...