| Tynskya Temporal range:
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| Tynskya eocaena | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Eufalconimorphae |
| Family: | †Messelasturidae |
| Genus: | †Tynskya Mayr, 2000 |
| Type species | |
| †Tynskya eocaena (Mayr, 2000)
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Tynskya is an extinct genus of messelasturid bird.
Distribution
T. eocaena, the type species, is known from fossils found in the North American Green River Formation.1 The Walton Member of the London Clay Formation of England contains the species T. waltonensis,2 along with the more recently described T. brevitarsus and T. crassitarsus.3
References
References
- Mayr, G. (2000) A new raptor-like bird from the Lower Eocene of North America and Europe. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 80:59–65.
- Mayr, G. (2021). "A partial skeleton of a new species of Tynskya Mayr, 2000 (Aves, Messelasturidae) from the London Clay highlights the osteological distinctness of a poorly known early Eocene "owl/parrot mosaic"". PalZ. 95 (2): 337–357. Bibcode:2021PalZ...95..337M. doi:10.1007/s12542-020-00541-8. ISSN 1867-6812.
- Mayr, Gerald; Kitchener, Andrew C. (28 February 2023). "The Vastanavidae and Messelasturidae (Aves) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 307 (2): 113–139. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2023/1119. ISSN 0077-7749. Retrieved 4 March 2025 – via Schweizerbart Science Publishers.