Paleornithology-news

Rests of a new genus of bird from Germany.

Aenigmatorhyncus rarus is the name given to the new avian of uncertain classification, from the early Eocene phases of the Messel Formation, Germany.

The remains include part and counterpart of a complete, articulated skull discovered in 2022.

Although the anatomy of the long beak suggests similarities with oystercatchers and stilts, the conformation of other skull features, such as a large coronoid process of the mandible, precludes an exact classification of the genus.