Septencoracias simillimus Mayr and Kitchener 2024 (bird)

Aves - Coraciiformes

Full reference: G. Mayr and A. C. Kitchener. 2024. The Picocoraciades (hoopoes, rollers, woodpeckers, and allies) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton‑on‑the‑Naze. PalZ

Belongs to Septencoracias according to G. Mayr and A. C. Kitchener 2024

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NMS.Z.2021.40.146, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Walton-on-the-Naze, general, which is in a Ypresian marine horizon in the London Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Walton-on-the-Naze, general

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