Telmabates is an extinct genus of presbyornithid[1] bird from the Eocene Bird Clay Locality of the Sarmiento Formation of Chubut Province, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, T. antiquus.[2]
| Telmabates Temporal range: Eocene,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Anserimorphae |
| Family: | †Presbyornithidae |
| Genus: | †Telmabates Howard, 1955 |
| Species: | †T. antiquus
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| †Telmabates antiquus Howard, 1955
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Telmabates antiquus was named and described by Howard (1955).[2] A second species, T. howardae was named by Cracraft (1970),[3] but De Mendoza, Degrange & Tambussi (2024) moved T. howardae to the new species Wunketru howardae as they found the species to be separate from Telmabates.[4]
References
edit- ^ E. N. Kurochkin, G. J. Dyke, and A. A. Karhu. (2002). A new presbyornithid bird (Aves, Anseriformes) from the Late Cretaceous of southern Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 3386:1-11
- ^ a b H. Howard. (1955). A new wading bird from the Eocene of Patagonia. American Museum Novitates 1710:1-25
- ^ Cracraft, Joel (1970). "A New Species of Telmabates (Phoenicopteriformes) from the Lower Eocene of Patagonia". The Condor. 72 (4): 479–480. doi:10.2307/1366403. ISSN 0010-5422. JSTOR 1366403.
- ^ De Mendoza, Ricardo Santiago; Degrange, Federico Javier; Tambussi, Claudia Patricia (2024). "An assessment of the anseriform affinities of "Telmabates" howardae". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 135. 104786. Bibcode:2024JSAES.13504786D. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2024.104786. S2CID 267159455.