Fossil records for the family Boobies

Sula tasmani
van Tets, Meredith, Fullagar & Davidson   1988
Holocene of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Islands, off e Australia
Primary materials: Holotypes: partial skeleton with maxilla, cranium, mandibula, quadratum, cervical and thoracal vertebrae, sternum, ulna, carpometacarpus
Secondary materials: Paratypes: partial juvenile skeleton with maxilla, cranium, mandibula, quadratum, cervical and thoracal vertebrae, ribben, sternum, pelvis, coracoïd, scapula, humerus, radius, ulna, carpometacarpus, phalanges, femur, tibiotarsus, fibula, tarsometatarsus, pedal phalanges

Gerard F. Van Tets, Charles W. Meredith, Peter J. Fullagar & Peter M. Davidson,
Osteological differences between Sula and Morus, and a description of an extinct new species of Sula from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, Tasman Sea
Notornis 35 (1988): 35-57


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