Name - Lithornis Owen 1840

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:727629 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Lithornis

• Pediorallus Harrison & Walker 1977

• Promusophaga Harrison & Walker 1977

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Genus

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Paleognathous birds from the Early Tertiary of the Northern Hemisphere.
• A new specimen of the fossil palaeognath Lithornis from the Lower Eocene of Denmark.
• Towards the complete bird - the skull of the middle Eocene Messel lithornithid (Aves, Lithornithidae).

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Sherborn Index Animalium

• Proc. Geol. Soc. London, III 1840: 165. [Index Animalium Entry]

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