Phalacrocorax mongoliensis
species · Kurochkin 1971 · accepted · extinct
2 fossil sites · 2 countries
Lived when
Neogene – Quaternary
11.63–2.58 million years ago
Found where
2 countries
0 rock formations
Fossil record
2 sites
0 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 9 million years, from 11.63 to 2.58 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 2.58 million years old — that is roughly 9 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Phalacrocorax mongoliensis was named in 1971 (Kurochkin 1971) — 55 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 2 countries.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).