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Pterodroma jugabilis
Olson & James 1991
Holocene of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands
Primary materials: Holotype: complete cranium without rostrum and palatum
Secondary materials: Paratypes: rostrum, part of skull, furcula, right coracoïd, right
humeri, left radius, both ulna, left carpometacarpi, right femur, left femora, both
tibiotarsus, both tarsometatarsi
Storrs L. Olson & Helen F. James,
Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian
Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriformes
Ornithological Monographs 45 (1991)
The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington D.C.
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Puffinus holeae
Walker, Wragg & Harrison 1990
Pleistocene of Canary Islands, e Atlantic Ocean
Primary materials: Holotype: imperfect skull
Secondary materials: Paratypes: imperfect skull, crania, mandibula, coracoïdea,
associated coracoïdea, anterior part sternum and furcula, furculae, sterna, humeri,
ulnae, radii, carpometacarpi, phalanx, sacra, femora, tibiotarsi, fibulae, tarsometatarsi,
pedal phalanges
Cyril Alexander Walker, Graham M. Wragg & Colin James Oliver Harrison,
A new shearwater from the Pleistocene of the Canary Islands and
its bearings on the evolution of certain Puffinus shearwaters
Historical Biology 3 (1990): 203-224
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Puffinus olsoni
McMinn, Jaume & Alcover 1990
Holocene of Canary Islands, e Atlantic Ocean
Primary materials: Holotype: Nearly complete cranium met mandibulae
Secondary materials: Paratypes: Incomplete cranium, nearly complete cranium, premaxilla,
humeri, radii, carpometacarpi, femora, tibiotarsi, tarsometatarsi, coracoïdea
M. McMinn, D. Jaume & J. A. Alcover,
Puffinus olsoni n.sp.: Nova espècie de Baldritja
recentment extingida provinent de depòsits espeleològics de Fuerteventura i Lanzarote
(Illes Canàries, Atlàntic oriental)
Endins 16 (1990): 63-71
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Puffinus spelaeus
Holdaway & Worthy 1994
Late Holocene, subrecent (20,000-600 b.p.) of South Island, New Zealand
Primary materials: Holotype: nearly complete skeleton
Secondary materials: Paratypes: perfect skull, premaxilla, quadratojugale, both rami
mandibulare, furculae, left scapula, both humerus, right ulna, both radius, phalanges,
femura, tibiotarsi, ribben, synsacrum, sternum,
R. N. Holdaway & T. H. Worthy,
A new fossil species of shearwater Puffinus from the late
Quartenary of the South Island, New Zealand, and notes on the biogeography and evolution
of the Puffinus gravis superspecies
Emu 94 (1994): 201-215
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