Ludiortyx
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| Ludiortyx Temporal range: Late Eocene
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Ludiortyx
Brodkorb, 1964
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L. hoffmanni
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| Ludiortyx hoffmanni (Gervais, 1852)
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Ludiortyx is a bird genus from the Late Eocene. Its remains have been found in the Montmartre Formation at the Montmartre (Paris, France). A single species is accepted, Ludiortyx hoffmanni.
This bird is of uncertain relationships; it has been variously considered to be an ancestral rail or to belong to the Quercymegapodiidae, a prehistoric group of Galliformes (landfowl). The material assigned to it were initially considered to be of 2 species, one that was at first believed to be a Tringa wader, the other assigned to the galliform genus Palaeortyx.[1] Even the latter assignment was probably much in error as though its relationships are not known, Palaeortyx was probably not a quercymegapodiid.
Synonyms
Apart from the genus-level synonym Eortyx, L. hoffmanni has undergone quite a number of name changes due to the confusion about its placement: [1]
- Tringa hoffmanni Gervais, 1852
- Palaeortyx hoffmanni (Gervais, 1852)
- Palaeortyx blanchardi Milne-Edwards, 1869
- Ludiortyx blanchardi (Milne-Edwards, 1869)
- Eortyx hoffmanni (Gervais, 1852)
Footnotes
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- Mlíkovský, Jirí (2002): Cenozoic Birds of the World, Part 1: Europe. Ninox Press, Prague. ISBN 80-901105-3-8 PDF fulltext
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