odontopterygian
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odontopterygian (plural odontopterygians)
- An extinct pelican-like pelagornithid seabird of the suborder Odontopterygia.
- 1972, RJ Scarlett, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, article title:
- Bone of a presumed Odontopterygian bird from the Miocene of New Zealand.
- 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 84:
- Riding on the edge of the wind on long, narrow wings are the masters of the ocean sky, small, tube-nosed albatrosses and petrels, and the huge, false-toothed odontopterygians.