Palaeoephippiorhynchus

Palaeoephippiorhynchus
Temporal range: OligoceneMiocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Ciconiiformes
Family: Ciconiidae
Genus: Palaeoephippiorhynchus
Lambrecht, 1930
Species

P. dietrichi Lambrecht, 1930
P. edwardsi (Lydekker, 1891)

Palaeoephippiorhynchus is an extinct genus of large stork from the Oligocene and Miocene. There are two recorded species, P. dietrichi from early Oligocene of Egypt and P. edwardsi from Miocene of Libya.

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