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Descriptions of all fossil Passerimorphae (1 Viewer)

Fred Ruhe said:
If you read Kessler, 2013 you can see that he uses Sylvia pussila n. sp. (directly copies from the paper, so no typo on my side) throughout the paper.

Fred
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I think it's a mistake (not a typo) from the author. The name appears several times in the paper but, it seems that the word pussila doesn't exist at all
 
Jim LeNomenclatoriste said:
I think it's a mistake (not a typo) from the author. The name appears several times in the paper but, it seems that the word pussila doesn't exist at all
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I agree with you, this paper is famous or the mistakes in names, many names are written with diacritical marks like híri, jánossyi etc. I know he ment pusilla, but the original spelling is pussila and has not been emended (yet), so here I give the name as given by Kessler: Sylvia pussila, although I don't follow his diacritical marks in other names.

Also see Lots of new Neogene Passeriformes from Hungary with a comment of Peter Kovalik.

Fred
 
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Fred Ruhe said:
I agree with you, this paper is famous or the mistakes in names, many names are written with diacritical marks like híri, jánossyi etc. I know he ment pusilla, but the original spelling is pussila and has not been emmended (yet), so here I give the name as given by Kessler: Sylvia pussila, although I don't follow his diacritical marks in other names.

Also see Lots of new Neogene Passeriformes from Hungary with a comment of Peter Kovalik.

Fred
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Is it bad or a good paper ? Nobody had the courage to see if there were homonyms in his work? 😬
 
Jim LeNomenclatoriste said:
Is it bad or a good paper ? Nobody had the courage to see if there were homonyms in his work? 😬
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I will not comment on this question other than that I think it is a useful paper, with many, obvious, mistakes, it is one of the first papers on fossil Neogene Passeriformes and the paper with far the most newly described fossil species ever, but whether it is good or bad you have to decide for yourself. Some species received a new genus, but you will find out when I continue with the descriptions of all fossil Passerimorphae.

Fred
 
Superfamilia INCERTAE SEDIS
Familia Regulidae Vigors, 1825

Genus Regulus Cuvier, 1800

Regulus pliocaenicus Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Regulus bulgaricus Boev, 1999
Zlatozar Nikolaev Boev, 1999
Regulus bulgaricus sp. n. - The First Fossil Kinglet (Aves: Sylviidae) from the Late Pliocene of Varshets, Western Bulgaria
Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 10: 109-115

Superfamilia INCERTAE SEDIS
Familia Bombycillidae Swainson, 1831

Genus Bombycilla Vieillot, 1807

Bombycilla hamori Kessler et Hír, 2012
Eugen Kessler & János Hír, 2012
Észak-Magyarország Madárvilága a Miocében. II. rész The Avifauna in North Hungary in the Miocene. Part II.
Földtani Közlöny 142: 149-168

Bombycilla brevia Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Bombycilla kubinyii Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Superfamilia CERTHIOIDEA Cracraft, Barker, Braun, Harshman, Dyke, Feinstein, Stanley, Cibois, Schikler, Beresford, García-Moreno, Sorenson, Yuri et Mindell, 2004
Familia Incertae Sedis

Genus Certhiops Manegold, 2008

Certhiops rummeli Manegold, 2008
Albrecht Manegold, 2008
Earliest Fossil Record of the Certhioidea (Treecreepers and Allies) from the Early Miocene of Germany
Journal of Ornithology 149: 223-228

Genus Kischinskinia Volkova et Zelenkov, 2018

Kischinskinia scandens Volkova et Zelenkov, 2018
N. V. Volkova & Nikita V. Zelenkov, 2018
A Scansorial Passerine Bird (Passeriformes, Certhioidea) from the Uppermost Lower Miocene of Eastern Siberia
Paleontological Journal 52: 58-65

Familia Tichodromidae Swainson, 1827

Genus Tichodroma Illiger, 1811

Tichodroma capeki Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Familia Sittidae Lesson, 1828

Sitta gracilis Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Sitta pusilla Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Sitta villanyensis Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Familia Certhiidae Leach, 1820

Genus Certhia Linnaeus, 1758

Certhia immensa Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Familia Troglodytidae Swainson, 1831
Subfamilia Troglodytinae Swainson, 1831

Genus Cistothorus Cabanis, 1850

Cistothorus brevis Brodkorb, 1957
Pierce Brodkorb, 1957
New Passerine Birds from the Pleistocene of Reddick, Florida
Journal of Paleontology 31(1): 129-138

Genus Troglodytes Vieillot, 1809

Troglodytes robustus Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149
 
Superfamilia MUSCICAPOIDEA Fleming, 1822
Familia Sturnidae Rafinesque, 1815
Subfamilia Graculinae G. R. Gray, 1841
Tribus Graculini G. R. Gray, 1841

Genus Aplonis Gould, 1836

Aplonis diluvialis Steadman, 1989
David W. Steadman, 1989
A New Species of Starling (Sturnidae, Aplonis) from an Archaeological Site on Huahine, Society Islands
Notornis 36: 161-169

Subfamilia Sturninae Rafinesque, 1815
Tribus Sturnini Rafinesque, 1815

Genus Dobrosturnus Boev, 2020

Dobrosturnus kardamensis Boev, 2020
Zlatozar Nikolaev Boev, 2020
A New Middle Miocene Starling (Sturnidae Rafinesque, 1815) from Kardam (NE Bulgaria)
Bulletin of the Natural History Museum Plovdov 5: 33-41

Genus Sturnus Linnaeus, 1758

Sturnus kretzoii Kessler et Hír, 2012
Eugen Kessler & János Hír, 2012
Észak-Magyarország Madárvilága a Miocében. II. rész The Avifauna in North Hungary in the Miocene. Part II.
Földtani Közlöny 142: 149-168

Sturnus brevis Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Sturnus pliocaenicus Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Sturnus baranensis Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Genus Necropsar Slater, 1879

Necropsar rodericanus Slater, 1879. (in Günther et Newton, 1879)
I don't have the paper, don't know the title and cannot find it on line, so help is needed.

Genus Cryptopsar Hume, 2014

Cryptopsar ischyrhynchus Hume, 2014
Julian Pender Hume, 2014
Systematics, Morphology, and Ecological History of the Mascarene Starlings (Aves: Sturnidae) with the Description of a New Genus and Species from Mauritius
Zootaxa 3849: 1-75

Familia Cinclidae Sundevall, 1836

Genus Cinclus Borkhausen, 1797

Cinclus major Kessler et Hír, 2012
Eugen Kessler & János Hír, 2012
Észak-Magyarország Madárvilága a Miocében. II. rész The Avifauna in North Hungary in the Miocene. Part II.
Földtani Közlöny 142: 149-168

Cinclus gaspariki Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Cinclus minor Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149
 
Fred Ruhe said:
Necropsar rodericanus Slater, 1879. (in Günther et Newton, 1879)
I don't have the paper, don't know the title and cannot find it on line, so help is needed.
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Günther A, Newton E. 1879. The extinct birds of Rodriguez. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London, 168: 423-437.

v.168 (1879) - Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London - Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
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Familia Turdidae Rafinesque, 1815

Genus Turdicus Kretzoi, 1962

Turdicus minor Kessler et Hír, 2012
Eugen Kessler & János Hír, 2012
Észak-Magyarország Madárvilága a Miocében. II. rész The Avifauna in North hungary in the Miocene. Part II.
Földtani Közlöny 142: 149-168

Turdicus pannonicus Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Turdicus tenuis Kretzoi, 1962
Miklós Kretzoi, 1962
Vogelreste aus der Altpleistozänen Fauna von Betfia
Aquila 67-68: 167-174

Genus Meridiocichla Louchart, 2004

Meridiocichla salotti Louchart, 2004
Antoine Louchart, 2004
An Extinct Large Thrush (Aves: Turdidae) from the Late Quaternary of Mediterranean Europe
Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandelungen 233:(2): 275-296

Genus Turdus Linnaeus, 1758

Turdus miocaenicus Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Turdus polgardiensis Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Turdus major Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Turdus medius Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Turdus praeminor Kessler, 2019
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149
Remark: Turdus praeminor Kessler, 2019 is a new name for the preoccupied name Turdus minor Kessler, 2013.
Unfortunately I don't have Kessler, 2019 and can't find it on line, so help is needed.
 
Fred Ruhe said:
Turdus praeminor Kessler, 2019
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eugen-Kessler/publication/287410379_Neogene_songbirds_Aves_Passeriformes_from_Hungary/links/577e2ba108aeaee3b2831f3d/Neogene-songbirds-Aves-Passeriformes-from-Hungary.pdf?origin=publication_detail Remark: Turdus praeminor Kessler, 2019 is a new name for the preoccupied name Turdus minor Kessler, 2013.
Unfortunately I don't have Kessler, 2019 and can't find it on line, so help is needed.
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I wrote to professor Kessler, and I just received an answer:

Dear Professor Kessler,

In the past you have often helped me with finding papers I needed. Again I ask for your help.

In your 2020 paper Evolution of songbirds (Passeriformes) and their precence in the Neogene and the Quaternary in the Carpathian Basin, I read that you renamed Turdus minor Kessler, 2013 into Turdus praeminor Kessler, 2019.

Unfortunately I cannot find the 2019 paper online, nor in our library. I hope you can give me information on the paper like the title and the journal you published it in, or, even better, send me a pdf of it.

Sincerely,

Fred Ruhe

Dear Fred!

Thank you for your comment. The problem is due to a confusion. There was a draft manuscript which was not published, but merged with the one published in 2020, and the name change was indicated in it, but unfortunately it was published as if it had already happened in 2019! Sorry...

Best wishes

Eugen

So my conclusion is that Turdus praeminor Kessler, 2019 does not excist, it is a Nomen Nudum, the correct name is still Turdus minor Kessler, 2013, preoccupied.

Fred
 
Familia Muscicapidae Flemming, 1822
Subfamilia Muscicapinae Flemming, 1822
Tribus Muscicapini Flemming, 1822

Genus Muscicapa Brisson, 1760

Muscicapa leganyii Kessler et Hír, 2012
Eugen Kessler & János Hír, 2012
Észak-Magyarország Madárvilága a Miocében. II. rész The Avifauna in North hungary in the Miocene. Part II.
Földtani Közlöny 142: 149-168

Muscicapa miklosi Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Muscicapa petenyii Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Subfamilia Cossyphinae Vigors, 1825

Genus Erithacus Cuvier, 1800

Erithacus horusitzkyi Kessler et Hír, 2012
Eugen Kessler & János Hír, 2012
Észak-Magyarország Madárvilága a Miocében. II. rész The Avifauna in North hungary in the Miocene. Part II.
Földtani Közlöny 142: 149-168

Erithacus minor Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Genus Luscinia Forster, 1817

Luscinia praeluscinia Kessler et Hír, 2012
Eugen Kessler & János Hír, 2012
Észak-Magyarország Madárvilága a Miocében. II. rész The Avifauna in North hungary in the Miocene. Part II.
Földtani Közlöny 142: 149-168

Luscinia jurcsaki Kessler et Venczel, 2011
Eugen Kessler & Márton Venczel, 2011
A New Passeriform Bird from the Middle Miocene of of Subpiatrã
Nymphaea Folia Naturae Bihariae 38: 17-22

Luscinia denesi Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Luscinia pliocaenica Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Genus Phoenicurus Forster, 1817

Phoenicurus erikai Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Phoenicurus baranensis Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Genus Monticola Boie, 1822

Monticola pongraczi Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Genus Saxicola Bechstein, 1803

Saxicola lambrechti Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Saxicola baranensis Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Saxicola parva Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Saxicola magna Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149
 
Genus Oenanthe Vieillot, 1816

Oenanthe kormosi Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Oenanthe infima Kurochkin, 1985
Evgeny Nikolayevic Kurochkin, 1985
[Birds of Central Asia in the Pliocene]
Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Expedition 26: 1-120
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Oenanthe pongraczi Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149
 

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Superfamilia PASSEROIDEA Sibley, Ahlquist et Monroe, 1988
Epifamilia PASSEROIDAE Sibley, Ahlquist et Monroe, 1988
Familia Prunellidae Richmond, 1908

Genus Prunella Vieillot, 1816

Prunella freudenthali Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Prunella kormosi Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Familia Passeridae Rafinesque, 1815

Genus Petronia Kaup, 1829

Petronia brevirostris Tchernov, 1968
Eitan Tchernov, 1968
A Preliminary Investigation of the Birds on the Pleistocene Deposits of Ubeidia
in: The Pleistocene of the Central Jordan Valley 38 pg.
Publications of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities 1968: 1-44
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Genus Passer Brisson, 1760

Passer hiri Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Passer minusculus Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Passer pannonicus Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Passer predomesticus Tchernov, 1962
Eitan Tchernov, 1962
Paleolithic Avifauna in Palestine
Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel 11 section B Zoology (3): 95-131
I don't have this paper and I cannot find it on line, so help is needed.

Familia Motacillidae Horsfield, 1821

Genus Motacilla Linnaeus, 1758

Motacilla intermedia Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Motacilla minor Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Motacilla robusta Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Genus Anthus Bechstein, 1805

Anthus antecedens Kessler et Hír, 2012
Eugen Kessler & János Hír, 2012
Észak-Magyarország Madárvilága a Miocében. II. rész The Avifauna in North hungary in the Miocene. Part II.
Földtani Közlöny 142: 149-168

Anthus baranensis Kessler, 2013
Eugen Kessler, 2013
Neogene Songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary
Hantkeniana 8: 37-149

Anthus seductus Kurochkin, 1985
Evgeny Nikolayevic Kurochkin, 1985
[Birds of Central Asia in the Pliocene]
Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Expedition 26: 1-120
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Jim LeNomenclatoriste said:
Clearly a junior homonym of Petronia brevirostris Taczanowski, 1874
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Well spotted, Jim. You are correct, but unfortunately there are more preoccupied names in paleornithology. Not often somebody takes the time to correct them. In this thread I gave the names as they are used at this moment.

Fred
 
Jim LeNomenclatoriste said:
Here we go to write together a manuscript to fix it x)
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Well, T'd rather leave that to the specialists, who are better qualified than you or me. What I can do is make a list of the preoccupied names in paleornithology I know of and I will try to do so when I finished rhe series (we are near the end, but still there is some work to do) "descriptions of all fossil …"

Fred
 

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