Post by adzebill on Jul 3, 2013 17:37:23 GMT
LOUCHART, A. (2004): An extinct large thrush (Aves: Turdidae) from the LateQuaternary of Mediterranean Europe. — N. Jb. Geol. Paliiont. Abh., 233: 275e296;Stuttgart.
Abstract: Bird fossils previously identified as the mostly Eastern Palearctic species Zoothera dauma, the Scaly Thrush, from the Late Quaternary of Corsica (France)and Crete (Greece), and others previously recognized as a probable new taxon, from Corsica, are reconsidered Owing to the shape of the beak and the body size, a new genus and species are described, Meridiocichla salotti, which was about as large as a Scaly Thrush. Now extinct, it lived at least on these two islands, and was the largest thrush ever known in Europe. In addition, the records of fossil Zoothera dauma and Turdus migratorius in the European Pleistocene prove to be invalid. Most of them are better referred to some of the extant European Turdidae.
