Additional Pelagornithidae remains from Seymour Island, Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of South American Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Acosta Hospitaleche, Carolina Ileana Alicia, Reguero, Marcelo Alfredo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: BARTONIAN; DENTARY; EOCENE; MARAMBIO; ODONTOPTERIGYFORMES; PALEOGENE; YPRESIAN; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Acosta; Alicia; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Argentino; Marambio; Seymour; Seymour Island; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Dirección Nacional del Antártico; Instituto Antártico Argentino
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/133343

Two incomplete mandibles are assigned to Pelagornithidae given the presence of a well marked neurovascular furrow and the unique bony projections, or “pseudo-teeth”, along the crista tomialis. Specimens IAA-Pv 175 from Ypresian levels of La Meseta Alloformation (Cucullaea I Allomember), and IAA-Pv 8...