TY - JOUR
T1 - An annotated checklist of the fossil birds of Australia
AU - Worthy, Trevor H.
AU - Nguyen, Jacqueline M.T.
PY - 2020/1/2
Y1 - 2020/1/2
N2 - A complete annotated checklist of all species of birds based on fossil material known as of 2019 from continental Australia is presented. Taxa range from Cretaceous to Holocene in age. It includes synonyms with full bibliographic details and specifics of the type material in all cases, such as specimen or locality data, source local fauna and geological age. Nomina based on fossil material that are now synonymised under extant taxa are also included. The list includes 95 avian species, of which 78 are extinct, in 66 genera. Five extinct subspecies in modern genera are recognised. These species represent 33 family- and 19 ordinal-group taxa, or nearly half of modern avian orders.
AB - A complete annotated checklist of all species of birds based on fossil material known as of 2019 from continental Australia is presented. Taxa range from Cretaceous to Holocene in age. It includes synonyms with full bibliographic details and specifics of the type material in all cases, such as specimen or locality data, source local fauna and geological age. Nomina based on fossil material that are now synonymised under extant taxa are also included. The list includes 95 avian species, of which 78 are extinct, in 66 genera. Five extinct subspecies in modern genera are recognised. These species represent 33 family- and 19 ordinal-group taxa, or nearly half of modern avian orders.
KW - australia
KW - checklist
KW - Fossil birds
KW - nomenclature
KW - synonymies
KW - taxonomy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086384893&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP180101913
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DE130101133
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP120100486
U2 - 10.1080/03721426.2020.1756560
DO - 10.1080/03721426.2020.1756560
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086384893
SN - 0372-1426
VL - 144
SP - 66
EP - 108
JO - Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia
JF - Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia
IS - 1
ER -