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Grus latipes Wetmore, 1960

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Baeopteryx latipes Wetmore, 1960

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Bermuda

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Wetmore, Alexander. (1960). Pleistocene birds in Bermuda. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 140(2): 1-11.

 

Other references:

Olson, Storrs L., Wingate, D. B., Hearty, P. J. and Grady, F. V. (2005). Prodromus of Vertebrate Paleontology and Geochronology of Bermuda. In: Alcover, J. A. and Bover, P. (eds.). Proceedings of the International Symposium “Insular Vertebrate Evolution: the Palaeontological Approach”. Monografies de la Societat d’Història Natural de les Balears, 12: 219-232.

Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]

 

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