Name - Gargantuavis Buffetaut & Le Loeuff 1998

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1308855 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Gargantuavis

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Original Description Reference

• A new giant ground bird from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France. Journal of the Geological Society (London), 155(1), January 1998: 1-4. [Zoological Record Volume 134]

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Recent Publications

• A new giant ground bird from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France.
• A well-preserved pelvis from the Maastrichtian of Romania suggests that the enigmatic Gargantuavis is neither an ornithurine bird nor an insular endemic.

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