Tynskya
{{Short description|Extinct genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{Geological range|Early Eocene}}
| image = Tynskya eocaena (cropped).jpg
| image_upright = 1.15
| image_caption = Tynskya eocaena
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Tynskya
| authority = Mayr, 2000
| type_species = {{extinct}}Tynskya eocaena
| type_species_authority = (Mayr, 2000)
| subdivision_ranks = Other species
| subdivision =
- {{extinct}}T. brevitarsus Mayr & Kitchener, 2023
- {{extinct}}T. crassitarsus Mayr & Kitchener, 2023
- {{extinct}}T. waltonensis Mayr, 2021}}
Tynskya is an extinct genus of messelasturid bird.
Distribution
T. eocaena, the type species, is known from fossils found in the North American Green River Formation.Mayr, G. (2000) A new raptor-like bird from the Lower Eocene of North America and Europe. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 80:59–65. The Walton Member of the London Clay Formation of England contains the species T. waltonensis,{{cite journal |last1=Mayr |first1=G. |year=2021 |title=A partial skeleton of a new species of Tynskya Mayr, 2000 (Aves, Messelasturidae) from the London Clay highlights the osteological distinctness of a poorly known early Eocene "owl/parrot mosaic" |journal=PalZ |volume=95 |issue=2 |pages=337–357 |doi=10.1007/s12542-020-00541-8 |issn=1867-6812|doi-access=free |bibcode=2021PalZ...95..337M }} along with the more recently described T. brevitarsus and T. crassitarsus.{{Cite journal |last1=Mayr |first1=Gerald |last2=Kitchener |first2=Andrew C. |date=28 February 2023 |title=The Vastanavidae and Messelasturidae (Aves) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK) |url=http://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/njgpa/detail/307/102756/The_Vastanavidae_and_Messelasturidae_Aves_from_the?af=crossref |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |language=en |volume=307 |issue=2 |pages=113–139 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2023/1119 |issn=0077-7749 |access-date=4 March 2025 |via=Schweizerbart Science Publishers|url-access=subscription }}
References
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Category:Prehistoric bird genera
Category:Prehistoric birds of North America
Category:Prehistoric birds of Europe
Category:Fossil taxa described in 2000
Category:Green River Formation
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