Aves - Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae

Full reference: C. Mourer-Chauviré, D. Berthet, and M. Hugueney. 2004. The late Oligocene birds of the Créchy quarry (Allier, France), with a description of two new genera (Aves: Pelecaniformes: Phalacrocoracidae, and Anseriformes: Anseranatidae). Senckenbergiana lethaea 84(1/2):303-315

Belongs to Borvocarbo according to U. B. Göhlich and C. Mourer-Cauvire 2010

See also Mayr 2009 and Mourer-Chauviré et al. 2004

Sister taxon: Borvocarbo tardatus

Type specimen: FSL 367 058, a limb element. Its type locality is Crechy, which is in a Rupelian terrestrial horizon in France.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Crechy

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