Palaeoephippiorhynchus

Palaeoephippiorhynchus is an extinct genus of large stork from the Oligocene of Africa: its closest living relative is the saddle-billed stork.^[1]

Palaeoephippiorhynchus Temporal range: Oligocene
Palaeoephippiorhynchus edwardsi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Ciconiiformes
Family:	Ciconiidae
Genus:	†Palaeoephippiorhynchus Lambrecht, 1930
Species
P. dietrichi Lambrecht, 1930

References

• Paleontology portal

1. "Palaeoephippiorhynchus Lambrecht 1930 (stork)". Fossilworks.

• Mlíkovský, J. 2003. Early Miocene birds of Djebel Zelten, Libya. J. Nat. Mus., Nat. Hist. Ser. 172: (1–4):114–120.
• Rasmussen, T.; Olson, S. L. & Simons, E. L. 1987. Fossil birds from Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation, Fayum Province, Egypt. Smithsonian Contributions for Paleobiology 62: 1–19.