Ciconia nana, the Glossary
Ciconia nana is an extinct species of stork from the Pliocene of Australia.[1]
Table of Contents
15 relations: Charles Walter De Vis, Chinchilla, Queensland, Condamine River, Cooper Creek, Gerard Frederick van Tets, Lake Eyre basin, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Piacenzian, Pliocene, Queensland, South Australia, Species, Species description, Stork, Zanclean.
- Ciconia
- Fossil taxa described in 1888
- Neogene birds of Australia
- Pliocene birds
Charles Walter De Vis
Charles Walter de Vis (9 May 1829, Birmingham, England – 30 April 1915, Brisbane, Queensland Australia) — Australian Dictionary of Biography was an English zoologist, ornithologist, — Encyclopedia of Australian science herpetologist,"De Vis".
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Chinchilla, Queensland
Chinchilla is a rural town and locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Condamine River
The Condamine River, part of the Balonne catchment that is part of the Murray-Darling Basin, drains the northern portion of the Darling Downs, an area of sub-coastal southern Queensland, Australia.
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Cooper Creek
The Cooper Creek (formerly Cooper's Creek) is a river in the Australian states of Queensland and South Australia.
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Gerard Frederick van Tets
Jonkheer Gerard Frederick van Tets (19 January 1929 – 14 January 1995), otherwise known as Jerry van Tets, was a twentieth century British, Canadian and Australian ornithologist and palaeontologist.
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Lake Eyre basin
The Lake Eyre basin is a drainage basin that covers just under one-sixth of all Australia.
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Patricia Vickers-Rich
Patricia Arlene Vickers-Rich (born 11 July 1944), also known as Patricia Rich, is an Australian Professor of Palaeontology and Palaeobiology, who researches the environmental changes that have impacted Australia (including the ancient super continent, Gondwana) and how this shaped the evolution of Australia’s fauna and flora.
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Piacenzian
The Piacenzian is in the international geologic time scale the upper stage or latest age of the Pliocene.
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Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.
Queensland
Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.
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South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.
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Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Species description
A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.
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Stork
Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills.
Zanclean
The Zanclean is the lowest stage or earliest age on the geologic time scale of the Pliocene.
See also
Ciconia
- Abdim's stork
- African woolly-necked stork
- Asian woolly-necked stork
- Black stork
- Ciconia
- Ciconia louisebolesae
- Ciconia lydekkeri
- Ciconia maltha
- Ciconia nana
- Maguari stork
- Oriental stork
- Storm's stork
- White stork
Fossil taxa described in 1888
- Balistomorphus
- Ceratops
- Ceratotherium mauritanicum
- Ciconia nana
- Codonosmilia
- Coronura
- Corycephalus
- Crenilepis
- Cumnoria
- Desmostylus
- Dorycordaites
- Eleutherocercus
- Epitherium
- Giant malleefowl
- Mesacanthus
- Neochen pugil
- Ninjemys
- Palaeohatteria
- Phocosaurus
- Priconodon
- Pyrotherium
- Rhabdoderma
- Samotherium
- Stenogale
- Synechodus
- Trinacromerum
- Varanus marathonensis
- Zacanthoides
Neogene birds of Australia
- Ciconia nana
- Dromornis
Pliocene birds
- Aiolornis
- Aptenodytes ridgeni
- Bimbisula
- Chunga incerta
- Ciconia nana
- Dromornis
- Eudyptes calauina
- Garganoaetus
- Giant malleefowl
- Larus elmorei
- Larus lacus
- Larus perpetuus
- Leptoptilos falconeri
- Macronectes tinae
- Marplesornis
- Pachystruthio
- Pelecanus cadimurka
- Pelecanus halieus
- Pelecanus schreiberi
- Phoeniconaias proeses
- Phoenicopterus floridanus
- Phoenicopterus stocki
- Proagriocharis
- Pygoscelis tyreei
- Rhamphastosula
- Scopus xenopus
- Struthio wimani
- Teratornithidae
- Tereingaornis
- Valenticarbo
- Xenorhynchopsis
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciconia_nana
Also known as Xenorhynchus nanus.