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The Réunion swamphen was possibly similar to the takahē, and was at times thought to be closely related.. The Réunion swamphen was described as having entirely blue plumage with a red beak and legs, and is generally agreed to have been a large, terrestrial swamphen, with features indicative of reduced flight capability, such as larger size and more robust legs.
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of extant and extinct members of the family Ceratophryidae is published by Barcelos et al. (2022). [192] Fossil material of a toad belonging or related to the genus Rhinella is described from the Serravallian Cura-Mallín Formation (Chile) by Guevara et al. (2022), representing the southernmost fossil ...
Description of the fossil material of birds from the Magdalenian of El Juyo, Spain is published by Rufà et al. (2022). [356] Description of the fossil material of birds from the Dieu and Maxa I Caves in Vietnam is published by Boev (2022). [357] A catalogue of fossil and subfossil birds from Cuba is published by Suárez (2022). [358]
Vulpes riffautae is an extinct species of fox from the late Miocene of Chad (approximately 7 ma). Fossils of V. riffautae potentially represent the earliest record of the dog family, Canidae, in the Old World. [1] V. riffautae was intermediate in size between Rüppell's fox (Vulpes rueppellii) and the fennec fox (V. zerda). The mandible is ...
2022 in arthropod paleontology is a list of new arthropod fossil taxa, including arachnids, crustaceans, insects, trilobites, and other arthropods that were announced or described, as well as other significant arthropod paleontological discoveries and events which occurred in 2022.
Vulpes skinneri is a species of extinct fox in the genus Vulpes [1] from the early Pleistocene, identified based on fossil remains dated to about 2 million years ago. [2] The species is known from a single partial skeleton discovered in the Malapa Fossil Site at the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa and is associated with the fossil hominin remains of Australopithecus ...
Chuliver, Scanferla & Smith (2022) describe a gravid female of Messelophis variatus from the Messel pit (Germany preserved with at least two embryos, documenting the first known occurrence of viviparity in a fossil snake. [31] El-Hares et al. (2022) describe new fossil material of colubroidean snakes from the Eocene Birket Qarun Locality 2 ...
This list of fossil fish research presented in 2022 is a list of new fossil taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, cartilaginous fishes, bony fishes, and other fishes that were described during the year, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleoichthyology that occurred in 2022.