Telmabates
Extinct genus of presbyornithid bird
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Telmabates is an extinct genus of presbyornithid[1] bird from the Eocene Bird Clay Locality of the Sarmiento Formation of Chubut Province, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, T. antiquus.[2]
| Telmabates Temporal range: Eocene, | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Anserimorphae |
| Family: | †Presbyornithidae |
| Genus: | †Telmabates Howard, 1955 |
| Species: | †T. antiquus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Telmabates antiquus Howard, 1955 | |
Telmabates antiquus was named and described by Howard (1955).[2] A second species, T. howardae was named by Cracraft (1970),[3] but De Mendoza, Degrange & Tambussi (2024) moved T. howardae to the new species Wunketru howardae as they found the species to be separate from Telmabates.[4]