A Large Ornithurine Bird (Tingmiatornis arctica) from the Turonian High Arctic: Climatic and Evolutionary Implications

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Bono, Richard K., Clarke, Julia, Tarduno, John A., Brinkman, Donald
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Axel Heiberg Island; Heiberg
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5171645/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27991515; https://doi.org/10.1038/srep38876

Bird fossils from Turonian (ca. 90 Ma) sediments of Axel Heiberg Island (High Canadian Arctic) are among the earliest North American records. The morphology of a large well-preserved humerus supports identification of a new volant, possibly diving, ornithurine species (Tingmiatornis arctica). The ne...