identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
288C94FAEB555421BB5CE2D1F1F6E8BA.text	288C94FAEB555421BB5CE2D1F1F6E8BA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Psittacomimidae Mayr 2026	<div><p>Psittacomimidae fam. nov.</p><p>Type genus.</p><p>Psittacomimus Mayr &amp; Kitchener, 2023</p><p>Differential diagnosis.</p><p>Characterized by the combination of (1) a short and wide beak with large nostrils and a slightly decurved tip; (2) a quadrate with a pneumatized caudal surface of the processus oticus (Fig. 3 K - N), (3) a mandible with dorsoventrally low rami and a very short symphysis, (4) pleurocoelous thoracic vertebrae; (5) a coracoid with an incisura nervi supracoracoidei, (6) a scapula with a very long and pointed acromion, (7) a humerus with a small but well-defined tuberculum supracondylare dorsale (Fig. 4 H - J), (8) a carpometacarpus with a curved os metacarpale minus and a wide spatium intermetacarpale, and (9) a comparatively short tarsometatarsus with (12) a large trochlea accessoria, which is separated from the main trochlea by a furrow (Fig. 5 X). The new taxon is distinguished from the Zygodactylidae in characters (1), (5), and (9); it differs from the Psittacopedidae in character (2).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/288C94FAEB555421BB5CE2D1F1F6E8BA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Mayr, Gerald	Mayr, Gerald (2026): On the interrelationships of early Eocene “ parrot-like ” and “ near-passerine ” zygodactyl birds (Aves: Psittacomimidae fam. nov.). Vertebrate Zoology 76: 121-134, DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e182505
