| 词条 | Rhynchaeites |
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| fossil range = Middle Eocene | name = Rhynchaeites | image = Rhynchaeites sp.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = Rhynchaeites species fossil | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Aves | ordo = Pelecaniformes | familia = Threskiornithidae | genus = Rhynchaeites | genus_authority = Wittich (1898) | subdivision_ranks = species | subdivision = }} Rhynchaeites is an extinct genus of Threskiornithidae related to modern ibises and has a single named species Rhynchaeites meselensis. It lived in today's Germany during the mid-Eocene and its remains were found in the famous Messel pit. However, leg bone fossils of a similar bird were found in the Early Eocene Fur Formation in 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 and thus actually belongs in Rhynchaeites too. References
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