The range of the pseudo tooths was global and they attained apex predator position over the surface
The range of the pseudo tooths was global and they attained apex predator position over the surface of the oceans during their presence in the Cenozoic era, approximately 66 to 5 million years ago. At the start of the Paleocene 66 m.y.a. the pseudo tooth birds were about the size of an adult albatross of today, as the epochs progressed their size increased. By the Paleocene - Eocene period boundary of Morocco, 56 m.y.a. the smallest pseudotooh bird, Odontoptila inexpectata was around 5ft/1.5m wingspan. By the end of the Neogene period boundary 2.6 m.y.a. (the end of Pliocene epoch), the pseudo tooth bird had evolved to enormous sizes, some attaining a 20ft/6m wingspan. Over a 50 million year span…#pseudobirds #falsetoothbird #pelagicfossils #pelagicbirds #pelagornithidae #odontopteryx Read our blog post for more…we have just listed some fabulously rare fossil bird bones and beaks! #fossil #geology #palaeontology #dinosaurbirds -- source link
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