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Telmabates

genus of birds (fossil)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ20072446 ↗
Source-derived summary

Telmabates is an extinct genus of presbyornithid bird from the Eocene Bird Clay Locality of the Sarmiento Formation of Chubut Province, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, T. antiquus.

Telmabates antiquus was named and described by Howard (1955). A second species, T. howardae was named by Cracraft (1970), but De Mendoza, Degrange & Tambussi (2024) moved T. howardae to the new species Wunketru howardae as they found the species to be separate from Telmabates.

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The public source identifies “Telmabates” as genus of birds (fossil). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Telmabates, genus and birds.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955, 1970, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Telmabates, genus and birds providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Telmabates”, the useful work is to connect “genus of birds (fossil)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20072446. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1955, 1970 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Telmabates” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.