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Osteodontornis
Taxonomy
Osteodontornis was named by Howard (1957).
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), Howard (1978); and to Pelagornithidae by Olson (1985), Carroll (1988), 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), Howard (1978); and to Pelagornithidae by Olson (1985), Carroll (1988), Matsuoka et al. (1998).
Species
Entered
by J. Hunter on 2003-01-23; modified by M. Uhen on 2026-05-08
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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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: Marsh 1875, Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004, Benton 1983 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Paleocene to the top of the Langhian or 59.24000 to 13.82000 Ma
Collections (7 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 | USA (Oregon) | Pseudodontornis sp. (216962) | |
| Burdigalian | Japan (Mie) | O. sp. (91579) | |
| Burdigalian - Langhian | Japan (Saitama) | O. sp. (56956) | |
| Langhian | Japan (Saitama) | O. sp. (54183) |