Eine neue Schleiereule (Aves: Strigidae) aus dem Untermiozän in Deutschland: mit Anmerkungen zur fossilen Geschichte der Tytoninae

Mlíkovský, Jiří

doi:10.1007/bf01653335

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“…All other Paleogene owls, which come mainly from Upper Eocene to Oligocene deposits of the Quercy fissure fillings, were assigned to the Tytonidae (Mourer-Chauviré, 1987;Mlíkovskỳ, 1998). However, this assignment is based on the plesiomorphic absence of an ossified arcus extensorius on the proximal tarsometatarsus and a deep supracondylar fossa on the distal tibiotarsus.…”

Section: Composition Of the Paleogene European Avifauna ( 1) Palamentioning

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The Paleogene fossil record of birds in Europe

2005

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The Paleogene (Paleocene-Oligocene) fossil record of birds in Europe is reviewed and recent and fossil taxa are placed into a phylogenetic framework, based on published cladistic analyses. The pre-Oligocene European avifauna is characterized by the complete absence of passeriform birds, which today are the most diverse and abundant avian taxon. Representatives of small non-passeriform perching birds thus probably had similar ecological niches before the Oligocene to those filled by modern passerines. The occurrence of passerines towards the Lower Oligocene appears to have had a major impact on these birds, and the surviving crown-group members of many small arboreal Eocene taxa show highly specialized feeding strategies not found or rare in passeriform birds. It is detailed that no crown-group members of modern 'families ' are known from preOligocene deposits of Europe, or anywhere else. The phylogenetic position of Paleogene birds thus indicates that diversification of the crown-groups of modern avian 'families ' did not take place before the Oligocene, irrespective of their relative position within Neornithes (crown-group birds). The Paleogene fossil record of birds does not even support crown-group diversification of Galliformes, one of the most basal taxa of neognathous birds, before the Oligocene, and recent molecular studies that dated diversification of galliform crown-group taxa into the Middle Cretaceous are shown to be based on an incorrect interpretation of the fossil taxa used for molecular clock calibrations. Several taxa that occur in the Paleogene of Europe have a very different distribution than their closest extant relatives. The modern survivors of these Paleogene lineages are not evenly distributed over the continents, and especially the great number of taxa that are today restricted to South and Central America is noteworthy. The occurrence of stem-lineage representatives of many taxa that today have a restricted Southern Hemisphere distribution conflicts with recent hypotheses on a Cretaceous vicariant origin of these taxa, which were deduced from the geographical distribution of the basal crown-group members.

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Section: Composition Of the Paleogene European Avifauna ( 1) Palamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Paleogene fossil record of birds in Europe

2005

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“…The genus Basityto, described by Mlíkovský (1998) with the species B. rummeli and placed in the subfamily Tytoninae, family Strigidae, contrary to the most widespread opinion of the family identity of Tytonidae (Del Hoyo et al, 1999;Sibley and Ahlquist, 1990), has been recently synonymized with the genus Balearica, family Gruidae, by MourerChauviré, (2001).…”

Section: Systematic Palaeontologymentioning

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“…gigantea and T. robusta were described from the Miocene of the Gargano peninsula (Ballmann, 1973(Ballmann, , 1976; these two species, with definite endemic characteristics, were recently synonymized by Mlíkovský (1998) as T. gigantea, according to the opinion that they represent diacronous steps of a single phyletic lineage. The effective coexistence of the two forms in the same karst fissures (Ballmann, 1973(Ballmann, , 1976 and some morphological differences pointed out by the analysis of new material from Gargano, such as the different robustness of the tarsometatarsus, allow to exclude this hypothesis (author's personal observation), so I am considering here T. robusta as a valid species.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Tyto melitensis, an extinct form described by Lydekker, (1891) from the Pleistocene of Malta, was synonymized with the extant T. alba (Mlíkovský, 1998;Mourer-Chauviré et al, 1980) and will not further considered here. T. balearica is an extinct species described by Mourer-Chauviré et al, (1980) as an insular form endemic of the Plio-Pleistocene of the Balearic Islands and subsequently found in several Neogene and Pleistocene localities of the Western Mediterranean basin (Sanchez-Marco, 2001), also with the recently described subspecies T. balearica cyrneichnusae endemic of Corsica and Sardinia (Louchart, 2002).…”

Section: Systematic Palaeontologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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A new large barn owl (Aves, Strigiformes, Tytonidae) from the Middle Pleistocene of Sicily, Italy, and its taphonomical significance

Pavia

2004

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“…A number of remains, including fragments of tarsometatarsi (Figure 8.7 and 8.9), long bones and pedal phalanges, indicate the presence of a small Strigidae, similar in size to the extant Athene noctua. The only Miocene taxon comparable in size is Alasio collongensis, described from the middle Miocene of France (Mlíkovský, 1998), but none of the bones found at MCC correspond to the skeletal elements used to describe the species. At least two very fragmentary tarsometatarsi indicate the presence of Coliidae (Figure 8.3-4), a group with an extensive Paleogene and Neogene record in Europe, with at least two taxa known from the Miocene, but which has never been reported before in the latest Miocene (Mayr, 2010).…”

Section: Vertebratesmentioning

confidence: 99%