Phoenicopteridae, Bonaparte, 1831

Worthy, Trevor H., Tennyson, Alan J. D., Archer, Michael & Scofield, R. Paul, 2010, First Record of Palaelodus (Aves: Phoenicopteriformes) from New Zealand, Records of the Australian Museum 62 (1), pp. 77-88 : 79

Phoenicopteridae

Phoenicopterus chilensis Molina, 1782 , modern: SAM B.25448, South America.

Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus, 1758 , modern in Africa, Europe, Asia, Caribbean, South America; extinct Australia, Pliocene (A.H. Miller, 1963): SAM B.11552.

The following Australian fossil flamingos (A.H. Miller, 1963; Rich et al., 1987) were examined to more completely assess distribution of characters diagnostic of palaelodids.

Phoenicopterus novaehollandiae A.H. Miller, 1963 , Oligo-Miocene: SAM P.39231, R tibiotarsus, Mammalon Hill, Lake Palankarinna, Etadunna Formation, South Australia.

Ocyplanus proeses de Vis, 1905 , Pliocene: SAM P.35225, cast of referred distal R tibiotarsus, originally described as Phoeniconaias gracilis A.H. Miller, 1963 , collected Stirton Quarry, = Site 1, UCMP V-5772, Lake Kanunka, Lake Eyre Subbasin, South Australia.

Xenorhynchopsis tibialis de Vis, 1905 , Pleistocene: SAM P.35226, cast of lectotype distal R tibiotarsus, Cooper Creek .

Xenorhynchopsis minor de Vis, 1905 , Pleistocene: SAM P.35227, cast of holotype, distal R tibiotarsus, collected at Unduwumpa (a Gregory Site), Cooper Creek.