New records of buttonquails (Aves, Charadriiformes, Turnicidae) from the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article De Pietri, Vanesa L., Mayr, Gerald, Costeur, Loïc, Scofield, R. Paul (2022): New records of buttonquails (Aves, Charadriiformes, Turnicidae) from the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe. Comptes Rendus Palevol 21 (11): 235-244, DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2022v21a11, URL: doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2022v21a11 ABSTRACT Buttonquails (Turnicidae) are morphologically derived, quail-like members of the avian order Charadriiformes (shorebirds) that live in Old World dry tropical and subtropical open habitats.

The morphological disparity between modern buttonquails and other shorebirds is bridged by Paleogene stem-group turnicids, which have a less specialised morphology. However, there is currently a large temporal gap in the fossil record between the earliest European buttonquails (early Oligocene) and the youngest pre-Quaternary records (late Miocene). Here we describe two new taxa from France, based on partial humeri, which we refer to Turnicidae gen. et sp. indet.