Fossil plotopterid seabirds from the Eo-Oligocene of the Olympic Peninsula (Washington State: USA): descriptions and functional morphology
The plotopterids (Aves, Plotopteridae) were a group of extinct wing-propelled marine birds that are known from Paleogene-aged sediments (Eocene to Miocene), mostly around the Pacific Rim (especially Japan and the northwest coast of North America). While these birds exhibit a strikingly similar wing...
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