Gatunek typowy
Rupelornis definitus Van Beneden, 1871; Oligocene of Belgium

Opis

Diagnostic features of femur include the very marked fovea ligamenti capitis, the proximo-distally narrow caput femoris and the cranio-caudally very narrow and in caudal view rectangularly-shaped trochanter femoris.

Synonimy
Diomedeoides Fischer, 1985; Frigidafons Cheneval, 1995; Ardeita Cheneval, 1996

Zasięg czasowy

Oligocene of Germany, France, Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Iran (Cheneval 1995; Fischer 1983, 1985, 1997, 2003; Peters and Hamedani 2000; Mayr et al. 2002; Gregorová 2006; Mayr 2009c; De Pietri et al. 2010; Mayr and Smith 2012a; Elzanowski et al. 2012). Taxonomic validity of Diomedeoides harmathi Kessler, 2009 from the early Oligocene of Hungary is uncertain (Mayr and Smith 2012a). A dobtful record of the Diomedeoididae from the early Miocene of Germany (Cheneval 1995; Mayr and Smith 2012a).

Literatura

van Beneden, P.J. 1871. Les oiseaux de l’argile rupélienne. Bulletin de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, Lettres et Beaux- Arts de Belgique, série 2 32: 256–261.

Cheneval, J. 1996. Tertiary avian localities of Belgium. In: Mlíkovský J., ed. Tertiary avian localities of Europe. Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Geologica, Vol. 39. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 535–540.

Elżanowski, A., Bieńkowska-Wasiluk, M., Chodyń, R. and Bogdanowicz W. 2012. Anatomy of the coracoid and diversity of the Procellariiformes (Aves) in the Oligocene of Europe. Palaeontology 55: 1199–1221

Fischer, K. 1983. Möwenreste (Laridae, Charadriiformes, Aves) aus dem mitteloligozänen Phosphoritknollenhorizont des Weißelsterbeckens bei Leipzig (DDR). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 59, Supplement: Annalen für Ornithologie 7: 151–155.

Fischer, K. 1985. Ein albatrosartiger Vogel (Diomedeoides minimus nov. gen., nov. sp., Diomedeoididae nov. fam., Procellariiformes) aus dem Mitteloligozän bei Leipzig (DDR). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 61, Supplement: Annalen für Ornithologie 9: 113–118.

Fischer, K. 1997. Neue Vogelfunde aus dem mittleren Oligozän des Weißelsterbeckens bei Leipzig (Sachsen). Mauritiana 16: 271–288.

Gregorová, R. 2006. A new discovery of a seabird (Aves: Procellariiformes) in the Oligocene of the “Menilitic Formation” in Moravia (Czech Republic). Hantkeniana 5:90.

Kessler, E. 2009. The oldest modern bird (Ornithurinae) remains from the Early Oligocene of Hungary. Fragm Palaeontol Hungar 27:93–96.

Mayr, G. 2009. Notes on the osteology and phylogenetic affinities of the Oligocene Diomedeoididae (Aves, Procellariiformes), Fossil Records 12: 133–140.

Mayr, G. 2022. Paleogene fossil birds. Second edition. Heidelberg: Springer.

Mayr, G. & Smith, T. 2012a. Phylogenetic affinities and taxonomy of the Oligocene Diomedeoididae, and the basal divergences amongst extant procellariiform birds. Zoological Journal Linnean Society 166: 854–875.

Mayr, G., Peters, D.S. i Rietschel, S. 2002. Petrel-like birds with a peculiar foot morphology from the Oligocene of Germany and Belgium (Aves: Procellariiformes). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22: 667–676.

Peters, D.S. and Hamedani, A. 2000. Frigidafons babaheydariensis n. sp., ein Sturmvogel aus dem Oligozän des Irans (Aves: Procellariidae). Senck leth 80:29–37.

de Pietri, V. L., Berger, J.-P., Pirkenseer, C., Scherler, L. and Mayr, G. 2010. New skeleton from the early Oligocene of Germany indicates a stem-group position of diomedeoidid birds. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55 (1): 23-34.