Pelecanus odessanus explained

Pelecanus odessanus is a large species of fossil pelican, described in 1886 from Late Miocene fossil material since lost, from Novaja Slobodka, near Odesa in the Ukraine.^[1] With a tarsometatarsus length of, it was about the same size as Pelecanus schreiberi from the Early Pliocene of North America.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Olson, Storrs L. . 1999. A new species of pelican (Aves: Pelecanidae) from the Lower Pliocene of North Carolina and Florida . Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . 112 . 3. 503–509. https://web.archive.org/web/20221010173815/https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/6492/VZ_293_Pelecanus_schreiberi.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y . 10 October 2022 .