other named taxa of pseudotooth birds might belong in Pelagornis too. The type species Pelagornis miocaenus is known from Aquitanian (Early Miocene) sediments...
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– 2–3 species? Pelagornis? cf. Osteodontornis (Capadare Middle Miocene of Cueva del Zumbador, Venezuela) cf. Osteodontornis/Pelagornis (?Middle/Late Miocene...
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although it was surpassed in wingspan after the 2014 description of Pelagornis sandersi, which is estimated to have possessed wings some 20% longer than...
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2013 study on the growth pattern and structure of the pseudoteeth in Pelagornis mauretanicus shows more support of Odontoanserae as both groups have "soft...
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known to have existed, only likely exceeded by measurement of wingspan by Pelagornis sandersi, discovered in 1983. Fossil remains of this species have been...
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Pelagornis. Non-avian dinosaurs died out in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, but some theropod dinosaurs survive to the present day....
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quite exactly one century after the first species of the Pelagornithidae (Pelagornis miocaenus) was. O. orri was named after Santa Barbara Museum of Natural...
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Buffrénil, V. (2013). "Structure and Growth Pattern of Pseudoteeth in Pelagornis mauretanicus (Aves, Odontopterygiformes, Pelagornithidae)". PLOS ONE....
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bird known 6.7 m – length of a Microchaetus rappi 7.4 m – wingspan of Pelagornis, the bird with longest wingspan ever. 7.5 m – approximate length of the...
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metres (9.8 ft) tall. The largest wingspan of all time likely belonged to Pelagornis sandersi at roughly 5.2 m (17 ft). P. sandersi was also likely the largest...
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