Mopsitta tanta is an extinct bird of uncertain taxonomic position from the Early Eocene of Denmark; its remains were recovered from the Fur Formation....
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to tropical Eocene Europe around 50 mya. Initially, a neoavian named Mopsitta tanta, uncovered in Denmark's Early Eocene Fur Formation and dated to 54 mya...
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Denmark. It has been hypothesized that the supposed parrot relative Mopsitta tanta, known from a single humerus bone, is the same bird as the leg fossils...
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Harrison 1983 (Early Eocene of Silveirinha, Portugal)– charadriiform? †Mopsitta tanta Waterhouse et al. 2008 (Early Eocene) – threskiornithid (may belong...
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where the climate was tropical at the time. The new species was named Mopsitta tanta, or the Danish Blue Parrot. Dyke and three colleagues reported in 2009...
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Spheniscidae, when it became extinct it made room for Megadyptes antipodes. Mopsitta tanta Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. Valid David W. Waterhouse Bent E. K, Lindow Nikita...
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