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Palaelodus
Temporal range: Oligocene–Miocene
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Palaelodus ambiguus skeleton, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Phoenicopteriformes
Family: †Palaelodidae
Genus: †Palaelodus
Milne-Edwards, 1863
Species
  • P. ambiguus Milne-Edwars, 1863 (type)
  • P. gracilipes? Milne-Edwars, 1863
  • P. crassipes? Milne-Edwars, 1863
  • P. pledgei Baird & Vickers-Rich, 1998
  • P. wilsoni Baird & Vickers-Rich, 1998
  • P. aotearoa Worthy et al., 2010
  • P. kurochkini Zelenkov, 2013

Palaelodus is an extinct genus of bird of the Palaelodidae family, distantly related to flamingos. They were slender birds with long, thin legs and a long neck resembling their modern relatives, but likely lived very different livestyles. They had straight, conical beaks not suited for filter feeding and legs showing some similarities to grebes. Their precise lifestyle is disputed, with researchers in the past suggesting they may have been divers, while more recent research suggests they may have used their stiff toes as paddles for swimming while feeding on insect larvae and snails. This behavior may have been key in later phoenicopteriforms developing filterfeeding bills. The genus includes between five and eight species and is found across Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and possibly South America. However some argue that most of the taxa named from Europe simply represent differently sized individuals of one single species. Palaelodus was most abundant during the Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene periods, but isolated remains from Australia indicate that the genus, or at least a relative, survived until the Pleistocene.

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Palaelodus

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identified and named three distinct species: Palaelodus ambiguus (the type species), Palaelodus gracilipes and Palaelodus crassipes. In the years following this...

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scientists: Adelalopus, Palaelodus and Megapaloelodus. Most fossil remains stem from Europe and have been assigned to the type species, Palaelodus ambiguus. Due...

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Swan

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Megapaloelodus

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Mirandornithes

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Phoenicopterus copei

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Xenorhynchopsis

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Phoenicopterus

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Tibiotarsus

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Tibiotarsi of Grus cubensis, Propelargus edwardsi, and Palaelodus gracilipes at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin...

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Scaniornis

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Juncitarsus

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Leakeyornis

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Harrisonavis

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Phoeniconaias with their smaller, bulbous bills and the contemporary Palaelodus, a phoenicopteriform with a straight, pointed beak. The nares of Harrisonavis...

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List of fossil bird genera

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Probalearica problematica (Milne-Edwards 1871); Palaelodus gracilipes Milne-Edwards 1863; Palaelodus crassipes Milne-Edwards 1863; Paloelodus minutus...

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Aechmophorus

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Miobaptus

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Podicipedini

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†Agnopterus? †Juncitarsus? †Kashinia? †Scaniornis? †Palaelodidae †Adelalopus †Palaelodus †Megapaloelodus Phoenicopteridae †Elornis? †Harrisonavis †Leakeyornis...

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Podilymbus

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†Agnopterus? †Juncitarsus? †Kashinia? †Scaniornis? †Palaelodidae †Adelalopus †Palaelodus †Megapaloelodus Phoenicopteridae †Elornis? †Harrisonavis †Leakeyornis...

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Podiceps

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†Agnopterus? †Juncitarsus? †Kashinia? †Scaniornis? †Palaelodidae †Adelalopus †Palaelodus †Megapaloelodus Phoenicopteridae †Elornis? †Harrisonavis †Leakeyornis...

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Phoenicoparrus

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†Agnopterus? †Juncitarsus? †Kashinia? †Scaniornis? †Palaelodidae †Adelalopus †Palaelodus †Megapaloelodus Phoenicopteridae †Elornis? †Harrisonavis †Leakeyornis...

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St Bathans fauna

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from St Bathans (Palaelodus aotearoa) is smaller than, and morphologically distinct from, the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene Palaelodus wilsoni from Australia...

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Adelalopus

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to the same individual as well. The name Adelalopus is an anagram of Palaelodus, a relative of the genus. The species name references the type locality...

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Manuherikia Group

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Elornis

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†Agnopterus? †Juncitarsus? †Kashinia? †Scaniornis? †Palaelodidae †Adelalopus †Palaelodus †Megapaloelodus Phoenicopteridae †Elornis? †Harrisonavis †Leakeyornis...

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Podilymbini

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Phoeniconotius

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Evgeny Kurochkin

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Yevgeny Kurochkin are: Anas kurochkini Zelenkov et Panteleyev, 2014, Palaelodus kurochkini Zelenkov, 2013, Zheroia kurochkini Nessov, 1988, Falco kurochkini...

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