 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (July 2022) |
| Nasidytes | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gaviiformes |
| Genus: | †Nasidytes Mayr & Kitchener, 2022 |
| Type species | |
| †Nasidytes ypresianus Mayr & Kitchener, 2022
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Nasidytes is an extinct genus of loon (Gaviiformes) that lived during the early Eocene in what is now Great Britain. It contains a single species, N. ypresianus. Nasidytes is the earliest unambiguously identified loon in the fossil record.[1]
- ^ Mayr, Gerald; Kitchener, Andrew C (2022-07-14). "Oldest fossil loon documents a pronounced ecomorphological shift in the evolution of gaviiform birds". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 196 (4): 1431–1450. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac045. ISSN 0024-4082.