Short note were ibises (Aves, Threskiornithidae) present in Antarctica?

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Agnolin, Federico Lisandro, Bogan, Sergio, Rozadilla, Sebastian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press
• Subjects: Ibises; Aves; Threskiornithidae; Antarctica; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentino; Argentina; Bogan; Antarc*; Antarctic Science
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/121766

The fossil record of ibises is largely incomplete and very patchy. In this sense, the early record of ibises remains poorly documented, being represented by an isolated tibiotarsus from the Eocene of Myanmar (Stidham et al. 2016), and the enigmatic genus Rynchaeites from the Middle Eocene of Germany...