Tynskya
Extinct genus of birds
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Tynskya is an extinct genus of messelasturid bird.
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| Tynskya Temporal range: | |
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| Tynskya eocaena | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Eufalconimorphae |
| Family: | †Messelasturidae |
| Genus: | †Tynskya Mayr, 2000 |
| Type species | |
| †Tynskya eocaena (Mayr, 2000) | |
| Other species | |
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Distribution
T. eocaena, the type species, is known from fossils found in the North American Green River Formation.[1] The Walton Member of the London Clay Formation of England contains the species T. waltonensis,[2] along with the more recently described T. brevitarsus and T. crassitarsus.[3]
