Pluvialis sp.

Mourer-Chauviré, Cécile & Geraads, Denis, 2010, The Upper Pliocene Avifauna of Ahl al Oughlam, Morocco. Systematics and Biogeography, Records of the Australian Museum 62 (1), pp. 157-184 : 174

cf. Pluvialis sp.

Material. Left humerus, proximal part, AaO-770.

This humerus resembles Pluvialis apricaria and P. squatarola . It differs from them because the ledge of the humeral head which overhangs the tricipital fossa is less developed than in these two Recent species. Pluvialis aff. squatarola has been reported in the Pliocene of the Yorktown Formation (Olson & Rasmussen, 2001). At the present time both species occur on the Atlantic coasts of Morocco.