Hoazinavis lacustris (lat.) Is a fossil species of birds from the goatsin family (Opisthocomidae), found in Brazil . The age of the remains is estimated at 22-24 million years (Upper Oligocene and Lower Miocene ). The description was made by an international group of paleontologists consisting of Gerald Mayr ( Germany ), Herculano Alvarenga (Brazil) and Cécile Mourer-Chauviré ( France ) based on materials discovered in 2008 in the Tremembé formation near Sao Paulo [1] . The new fossil species Hoazinavis lacustris is considered as the oldest representative of the goacins. The previously found species of Hoazinoides magdalenae is less than 15 million years old: it comes from the Middle Miocene of Colombia [2] . Two more species close to goacins are known from the Eocene: Onychopteryx simpsoni (Argentina; Cracraft 1971) [3] and Foro panarium (North America; Olson, 1992) [4] [5] .
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See also
- Kaiika maxwelli
- Vorona berivotrensis
Notes
- ↑ Miller, AH A fossil hoatzin from the Miocene of Colombia (English) // Auk. - 1953. - Vol. 70 . - P. 484-489 .
- ↑ Cracraft, J. A new family of hoatzin-like birds (Order Opisthocomiformes) from the Eocene of South America (Eng.) // Ibis. - 1971. - Vol. 113 . - P. 229-233 .
- ↑ Olson, SL A new family of primitive landbirds from the Lower Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming // Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science. - Los Angeles, 1992. - Vol. 36 . - P. 137-160 .
- ↑ Darren Naish. Hoatzins are no longer exclusively South American and once crossed an ocean . ScientificAmerican.com (October 5, 2011). Date of treatment November 15, 2011. Archived on September 3, 2012.
Literature
- Hackett, SJ, Kimball, RT, Reddy, S., Bowie, RCK, Braun, EL, Braun, MJ, Cjojnowski, JL, Cox, WA, Han, K.-L., Harshman, J., Huddleston, CJ, Marks, B., Miglia, KJ, Moore, WS, Sheldon, FH, Steadman, DW, Witt, CC & Yuri, T. A. phylogenomic study of birds reveals their evolutionary history (English) // Science . - 2008 .-- Vol. 320 . - P. 1763-1768 .
- Hedges, SB, Simmons, MD, van Dijk, MAM, Caspers, G.-J., de Jong, WW & Sibley, CG Phylogenetic relationships of the hoatzin, an enigmatic South American bird // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . - 1995. - Vol. 92 . - P. 11662-11665 .
- Hughes, JM & Baker, AJ Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) resolved using mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences (Eng.) // Molecules and Biological Evolution. - 1999. - Vol. 16 . - P. 1300-1307 .