Temporal range: Late Eocene-Early Oligocene ~Priabonian–Rupelian
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Femur and distal end of the tibiotarsus of Olympidytes
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Suliformes
Family:
†Plotopteridae
Subfamily:
†Tonsalinae
Genus:
†Olympidytes Mayr & Goedert, 2016
Type species
Olympidytes thieli
Mayr & Goedert, 2016
Olympidytes is an extinct genus of Plotopteridae, a family of large, flightless marine bird superficially similar to modern penguins but more closely related to cormorants and gannets. It lived during the Late Eocene or the Early Oligocene, in what is today the State of Washington and Japan.[1]
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plotopterid potentially belonging either to the genus Olympidytes or Klallamornis. The genus name, Olympidytes, is formed from the prefix "Olymp-", referring...
the specimen could also belong to the genus Olympidytes, or to a new genus, as cf. Klallamornis or Olympidytes. The genus Klallamornis consist of the three...
more similar by to those of larger forms like Copepteryx, Hokkaidornis, Olympidytes and Klallamornis than to those of the smaller forms Stemec and Plotopterum...
water with its hindlimbs, a characteristic also present in its relative Olympidytes. The preservation of ripple marks on sandstones found in the vicinity...
Matsuoka (2021). New fossil material of plotopterids, resembling bones of Olympidytes (which was previously considered endemic to North America), is described...
Island) A probable relative of albatrosses. The type species is N. giglii. Olympidytes Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Mayr & Goedert Latest Eocene or Early Oligocene...
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