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Osteodontornis
Taxonomy
Osteodontornis was named by Howard (1957). Its type is Osteodontornis orri.
It was synonymized subjectively with Pelagornis by Mayr and Rubilar-Rogers (2010).
It was assigned to Pseudodontornithidae by Howard (1957), Wetmore (1960), Howard (1968), Howard (1972), Harrison and Walker (1976) and Howard (1978); and to Pelagornithidae by Olson (1985), Carroll (1988) and Matsuoka et al. (1998).
It was synonymized subjectively with Pelagornis by Mayr and Rubilar-Rogers (2010).
It was assigned to Pseudodontornithidae by Howard (1957), Wetmore (1960), Howard (1968), Howard (1972), Harrison and Walker (1976) and Howard (1978); and to Pelagornithidae by Olson (1985), Carroll (1988) and Matsuoka et al. (1998).
Species
O. orri (type species), Pseudodontornis tenuirostris
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1930 | Pseudodontornis Lambrecht |
| 1933 | Pseudodontornis Lambrecht p. 305 |
| 1957 | Osteodontornis Howard p. 3 |
| 1957 | Pseudodontornis Howard p. 21 |
| 1960 | Osteodontornis Wetmore p. 24 |
| 1960 | Pseudodontornis Wetmore p. 24 |
| 1968 | Osteodontornis Howard p. 9 |
| 1972 | Osteodontornis Howard p. 5 |
| 1972 | Pseudodontornis Howard p. 5 |
| 1976 | Pseudodontornis Harrison and Walker p. 15 |
| 1976 | Osteodontornis Harrison and Walker p. 20 |
| 1977 | Pseudodontornis Harrison and Walker p. 17 |
| 1978 | Osteodontornis Howard p. 14 |
| 1985 | Osteodontornis Olson p. 194 |
| 1988 | Osteodontornis Carroll |
| 1988 | Pseudodontornis Carroll |
| 1998 | Osteodontornis Matsuoka et al. p. 246 |
| 2002 | Pseudodontornis Mlikovsky p. 82 |
| 2002 | Pseudodontornis Sepkoski |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Osteodontornis Howard 1957
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†Osteodontornis orri Howard 1957
Invalid names: Pseudodontornis Lambrecht 1930 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subo = suborder, o = order | |||||
| References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Paleocene to the top of the Middle Miocene or 58.70000 to 11.60800 Ma
Collections (13 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Paleocene - Early/Lower Eocene | United Kingdom (England) | Pseudodontornis tenuirostris (142313) | |
| Arikareean - Hemingfordian | USA (Oregon) | O. sp. (90464) | |
| Miocene | Japan (Aichi) | O. sp. (124786) | |
| Burdigalian | Japan (Mie) | O. sp. (91579) | |
| Burdigalian | USA (Oregon) | Pseudodontornis sp. (216962) | |
| Burdigalian - Langhian | Japan (Saitama) | O. sp. (56956) | |
| Langhian | Japan (Saitama) | O. sp. (54183) | |
| Langhian | USA (California) | O. orri (59059) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | USA (California) | O. orri (46069 121152) | |
| Middle Miocene | USA (California) | O. orri (124690) | |
| Tortonian | USA (California) | O. orri (13300 82517) |