Tsondabornis
| Tsondabornis Temporal range: Early Miocene | |
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Egg fossil classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Order: | Struthioniformes |
| Family: | Struthionidae |
| Oogenus: | †Tsondabornis Pickford, 2013 |
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Tsondabornis is an oogenus of extinct Struthionidae which lived in the early Miocene of Namibia. There are two species of this genus, T. psammoides and T. minor.[1]
Pickford states the genus name refers to the Tsondab area where the material was collected and ornis, the Greek word for bird.[1]
Material from this genus is among the oldest of any Struthioniformes, close in age to that of another early Miocene ostrich Struthio coppensi.[2]
The eggshells are 1–1.7 mm thick in T. minor and 1.3–2.3 mm in T. psammoides[3][2]
References
- 1 2 Martin Pickford (2014). "New ratite eggshells from the Miocene of Namibia" (PDF). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia. 15: 70–90.
- 1 2 Mikhailov, Konstantin E.; Zelenkov, Nikita (September 2020). "The late Cenozoic history of the ostriches (Aves: Struthionidae), as revealed by fossil eggshell and bone remains". Earth-Science Reviews. 208 103270. Bibcode:2020ESRv..20803270M. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103270.
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