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.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; Seymour; Seymour Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7588450/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33106519; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75248-6

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 known spec...