A night heron (Ciconiiformes, Ardeidae) and a stork (Ciconiidae) from the Pliocene of Myanmar (Burma)

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	A night heron (Ciconiiformes, Ardeidae) and a stork (Ciconiidae) from the Pliocene of Myanmar (Burma)
	Stidham, Thomas A.1; Tsubamoto, Takehisa 2; Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein 3; Thaung-Htike 3; Egi, Naoko 4; Nishioka, Yuichiro 5; Maung-Maung 6; Takai, Masanaru 4
	2016
发表期刊	PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA
卷号	19 期号:3
文章类型	Article
摘要	Two new avian specimens from the Pliocene part of the Irrawaddy sediments of central Myanmar represent the youngest known fossil records of birds from Myanmar (Burma) that previously was restricted to one specimen of an ibis from the middle Eocene. The age of the Sulegon-1 fossil locality is likely from the later part of the Pliocene based on the presence of the suid Sivachoerus prior, the anthracotheriid Merycopotamus dissimilis, and the Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sp. cf. D. sumatrensis. The distal tarsometatarsus is from a night heron (Ardeidae: Nycticoracini) and exhibits derived (and primitive) features consistent with night herons, but not other groups of ardeids, including the absence of a lateral deflection of trochlea III and a trochlear furrow extending to the proximal plantar end of trochlea III. The night heron fossil is not distinguishable from some species of Gorsachius and Nycticorax and may derive from one of the extant species in Southeast Asia. The other specimen (a distal tibiotarsus) represents a taxon of stork (Ciconiidae: cf. Leptoptilini) and displays many characters associated with that group (incuding a large centrally positioned intercondylar tubercle, a rounded intercondylar fossa, and distally notched trochlear rims). This stork is smaller than the 'giant' storks known from the Plio-Pleistocene of Asia and Africa, and may represent a relative of one of the large extant Asian storks. The inferred paleohabitat of the Sulegon locality as a tidal deltaic habitat is consistent with the lifestyle of both the extant night herons and large storks that occur in southeastern Asia today.
关键词	Aves Pliocene Myanmar Ardeidae Ciconiidae Paleoenvironment
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
关键词[WOS]	AVES ARDEIDAE ; EARLY MIOCENE ; LIANG BUA ; MIDDLE MIOCENE ; MARABOU STORK ; NEW-ZEALAND ; PLEISTOCENE ; INDONESIA ; LEPTOPTILOS ; FLORES
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
项目资助者	Chinese National Natural Science Foundation(NSFC41472025) ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)(XDB03020501) ; JSPS KAKENHI(16405018 ; 20405015 ; 26304019 ; 15K05330)
WOS研究方向	Paleontology
WOS类目	Paleontology
WOS记录号	WOS:000392102400008
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7521
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Ehime Univ, Grad Sch Sci & Engn, 2-5 Bunkyo Cho, Matsuyama, Ehime 7908577, Japan 3.Magway Univ, Dept Geol, Magway, Magway Region, Myanmar 4.Kyoto Univ, Primate Res Inst, Inuyama, Aichi 4848506, Japan 5.Waseda Univ, Waseda Inst Adv Study, Shinjuku Ku, 1-6-1 Nishi Waseda, Tokyo 1698050, Japan 6.Loikaw Univ, Dept Geol, Loikaw Township, Kayah State, Myanmar
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Stidham, Thomas A.,Tsubamoto, Takehisa,Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein,et al. A night heron (Ciconiiformes, Ardeidae) and a stork (Ciconiidae) from the Pliocene of Myanmar (Burma)[J]. PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA,2016,19(3).
APA	Stidham, Thomas A..,Tsubamoto, Takehisa.,Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein.,Thaung-Htike.,Egi, Naoko.,...&Takai, Masanaru.(2016).A night heron (Ciconiiformes, Ardeidae) and a stork (Ciconiidae) from the Pliocene of Myanmar (Burma).PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA,19(3).
MLA	Stidham, Thomas A.,et al."A night heron (Ciconiiformes, Ardeidae) and a stork (Ciconiidae) from the Pliocene of Myanmar (Burma)".PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA 19.3(2016).