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Palaelodus pledgei

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Aves

Family
  
Palaelodidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Phoenicopteriformes

Genus
  
Palaelodus

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Palaelodus pledgei is an extinct species of long-legged waterbird, a small palaelodid from the Oligo-Miocene of Australia. It was described from fossil material (a proximal right tarsometatarsus and a distal right tibiotarsus) collected from Lake Palankarinna in the Lake Eyre Basin in north-eastern South Australia.

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Palaelodus pledgei Wikipedia