Pristineanis major Mayr & Kitchener, 2024 (new species)
(Type tarsometatarsus [fused ankle and foot bones] of Pristineanis major [scale bar = 5 mm], from Mayr and Kitchener, 2024)
Meaning of name: major = larger [in Latin]
Age: Eocene (Ypresian), 54.6‒55 million years ago
Where found: London Clay Formation, Essex, U.K.
How much is known: A left tarsometatarsus (fused ankle and foot bones).
Notes: P. major appears to have been closely related to piciforms, a group of birds that includes woodpeckers and toucans. Unlike in modern piciforms, the outermost toe on each foot of P. major was probably not fully reversed, but could be rotated into a backward-pointing position. As its name suggests, P. major was larger than the other known species of Pristineanis, P. minor (the type species, also from the London Clay Formation) and P. kistneri (from the Eocene of the western United States, formerly classified in the genus "Neanis").
Reference: Mayr, G. and A.C. Kitchener. 2024. The Picocoraciades (hoopoes, rollers, woodpeckers, and allies) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze. PalZ advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s12542-024-00687-9
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