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The earliest Tyrannida (Aves, Passeriformes), from the Oligocene of France

Ségolène Riamon
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Nicolas Tourment
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passeriformes is the most diverse bird order. nevertheless, passerines have a remarkably poor early fossil record. in addition, high osteological homoplasy across passerines makes partial specimens difficult to systematically assign precisely. Here we describe one of the few earliest fossil passerines, from the early Oligocene (ca 30 Ma) of southern France, and one of the best preserved and most complete. This fossil can be conservatively assigned to Tyrannida, a subclade of the New World Tyranni (Suboscines), i.e. of the Tyrannides. A most probably stem-representative of Tyrannida, the new fossil bears strong resemblance with some manakins (Pipridae), possibly due to plesiomorphy. Furthermore, it yields a new point of calibration for molecular phylogenies, already consistent with the age of the fossil. Tyrannida, and the more inclusive Tyrannides, are today confined to the New World. Therefore, the new fossil calls for scenarios of transatlantic crossing during or near the Oligocene. Later, the European part of the distribution of the Tyrannida disappeared, leading to a relictual modern New World distribution of this clade, a pattern known in other avian clades. The history of Tyrannida somehow mirrors that of the enigmatic Sapayoa aenigma, sole New World representative of the Eurylaimides (Old World Tyranni), with transatlantic crossing probably caused by similar events.
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hal-02909865 , version 1 (21-12-2020)

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Ségolène Riamon, Nicolas Tourment, Antoine Louchart. The earliest Tyrannida (Aves, Passeriformes), from the Oligocene of France. Scientific Reports, 2020, 10 (1), ⟨10.1038/s41598-020-66149-9⟩. ⟨hal-02909865⟩
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