[Taxacom] more science nonsense

[John Grehan]

Never ceases to amaze me. In a recent paper the following assertion:

"All previously known Paleocene records of pelagornithids stem from the
Northern Hemisphere, but as the oldest and phylogenetically most basal
representative,
Protodontopteryx suggests that these birds actually evolved in the Southern
Hemisphere."

Apart from the  center of origin illusion, there never has been any
empirical demonstration that the location of the oldest fossil corresponds
to the oldest occupied area for a taxon. But still they keep saying it as
if it were real.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335873378_Oldest_smallest_and_phylogenetically_most_basal_pelagornithid_from_the_early_Paleocene_of_New_Zealand_sheds_light_on_the_evolutionary_history_of_the_largest_flying_birds


John Grehan