Plesiocathartes Explained

Plesiocathartes is an extinct genus of birds that lived during the Eocene to Oligocene period. It currently presents 5 species from Europe and North America. It was originally described related to New World vultures, but however recent studies has uncovered that the genus was more closely related to the cuckoo-roller from Madagascar.^[1]

Further reading

• R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution 1-698
• J. F. de Villalta. 1963. Las aves fósiles del Mioceno español. Boletin de la Real Socieded Española de Historia Natural 61:263-285
• K. Lambrecht. 1933. Handbuch der Palaeornithologie. 1-1024
• G. Mayr. 2005. The Paleogene fossil record of birds in Europe. Biological Reviews 80:513-542
• G. Mayr and T. Smith. 2019. A diverse bird assemblage from the Ypresian of Belgium furthers knowledge of early Eocene avifaunas of the North Sea Basin. Neus Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen 291(3):253-281

Notes and References

1. Web site: The first New World occurrence of the Eocene bird Plesiocathartes (Aves: ?Leptosomidae) | Request PDF. 28 July 2024.