Mullerornis

Mullerornis Temporal range: Quaternary–Holocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓

Restoration of Mullerornis agilis
Conservation status
Extinct
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	†Aepyornithiformes
Family:	†Aepyornithidae
Genus:	†Mullerornis
Species
Mullerornis betsilei (Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, 1894)^[1] Mullerornis agilis (Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, 1894)^[1] Mullerornis rudis (Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, 1894)^[1]^[2]
Synonyms
Flacourtia rudis (Andrews, 1894)

Mullerornis is the smaller of the two genera of extinct elephant birds (Aepyornithidae) of Madagascar (the other is Aepyornis).^[3] Species include Mullerornis agilis Milne-Edwards and A. Grandidier, 1894, and M. grandis Lamberton, 1934.^[4] A bone possibly belonging to Mullerornis has been radiocarbon dated to about 1260 BP,^[5] suggesting that the animal was still extant at the end of the first millennium.^[6]

The genus is named after Georges Muller, a French explorer who was killed in 1892 by hostile members of the Sakalava people.

Footnotes

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Brands, S. (2008)
↑ Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)
↑ Burney, et al. (1997), p. 763
↑ MacPhee, et al. (1985), table II
↑ Burney, et al. (2004), p. 50
↑ Burney et al. (2004), p. 25

References

Brands, Sheila (17 Oct 2009). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Taxon: Genus Mullerornis -". Project: The Taxonomicon. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Universal Taxonomic Services. Retrieved 15 Feb 2011.
Burney, David A.; James, Helen F.; Grady, Frederick V.; Rafamantanantsoa, Jean-Gervais; Ramilisonina; Wright, Henry T.; Cowart, James B. (1997). "Environmental change, extinction and human activity: Evidence from caves in NW Madagascar". Journal of Biogeography 24 (6): 755–767. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00146.x.
Burney, David A.; Burney, Lida Pigott; Godfrey, Laurie R.; Jungers, William L.; Goodman, Steven M.; Wright, Henry T.; Jull, A. J. Timothy (2004). "A chronology for late prehistoric Madagascar". Journal of Human Evolution 47 (1-2): 25–63. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.05.005. PMID 15288523.
Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003). "Elephant birds". In Hutchins, Michael. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. 8 Birds I Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins (2 ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. pp. 103–104. ISBN 0-7876-5784-0.
MacPhee, N. A.; Burney, David A.; Wells (1985). "Early Holocene chronology and environment of Ampasambazimba, a Malagasy subfossil lemur site". International Journal of Primatology 6 (5): 463–489. doi:10.1007/BF02735571.