• Corpus ID: 12875641

PSEUDODONTORNIS AND OTHER LARGE MARINE BIRDS FROM THE MIOCENE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

@inproceedings{Hopson1964PSEUDODONTORNISAO,
  title={PSEUDODONTORNIS AND OTHER LARGE MARINE BIRDS FROM THE MIOCENE OF SOUTH CAROLINA},
  author={James A. Hopson},
  year={1964}
}

• J. Hopson
• Published 1964
• Environmental Science, Geography

While engaged in the reorganization of the vertebrate fossil collections at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, the writer discovered the incomplete lower jaw of a large bird from the Miocene phosphate deposits near Charleston, South Carolina. The specimen is clearly referable to the family Pseudodontornithidae, an extinct group of very large oceanic birds characterized by the presence of vertical bony tooth-like processes, or, as the family name implies, pseudoteeth, on the margins of their jaws. This is the first record of a pseudotoothed bird from eastern North America. The only previously described bird from these deposits is Palaeochenoides mioceanus (Schufeldt, 1916) represented by a partial femur. A further search made in the collection of phosphate beds fossils at Yale for additional avian material yielded negative results. Professor Bryan Patterson called nr^