Rhynchaeites

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title: Rhynchaeites
text: Rhynchaeites is an extinct genus of Threskiornithidae related to modern ibises and has a single named species Rhynchaeites meselensis. It lived in today's Germany during the mid-Eocene and its remains were found in the famous Messel pit. However, leg bone fossils of a similar bird were found in the Early Eocene Fur Formation in Denmark. It has been hypothesized that the supposed parrot relative Mopsitta tanta, known from a single humerus bone, is the same bird as the leg fossils and thus actuall
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description: Extinct genus of birds
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhynchaeites
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date modified: 2024-01-01T22:28:49Z
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