Sula Brisson, 1760

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Sula Brisson

450. Sula sp. Holocene – RJ

Sula sp – Kneip et al. 1975: 105.

Sula sp – Kneip 1977: 52.

Sula sp – Souza Cunha et al. 1977: 146.

Sula sp. – Ruschi 1979: 36.

Sula sp – Mendonça de Souza and Mendonça de Souza 1981 –1982: 115.

Sula sp. [in part?] – Gaspar 2003: 58.

Kneip et al. (1975) reported material associated with this genus from layer III of Sambaqui do Forte , in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro. It consists of a distal portion of a femur and a fragment of carpometacarpus of a bird more robust than the living Sula species .

451. Sula leucogaster (Boddaert)

Holocene – RJ, SC

Sula leucogaster leucogaster – Lima and Silva 1984: 28.

Lima and Silva (1984) reported remains from the Ilha de Santana site in Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, dated 1,260±330

years BP. The material includes at least two to three individuals and is represented by cervical vertebrae (C-7, C-8,

C-11, and C-12), fragments of the pelvis, an almost complete synsacrum, an incomplete right coracoid, the proximal end of a left humerus, fragments of the diaphysis of the humerus,

and two fragments of the diaphysis of the ulna.

Pelicaniformes [sic] [in part] – Kneip et al. 1989a: 126.

Sula leucogaster – Kneip et al. 1989b: 662.

Sula leucogaster – Kneip et al. 1994: 49.

Sulidae (“atobá”) – Kneip et al. 1995: 7.

Sulidae (“atobá”) – Kneip et al. 1997: 19, 37.

Sulidae – Kneip 2001: 7.

Sulidae (“atobá”) – Magalhães et al. 2001: 59.

Kneip et al. (1989b, 1994) reported two bones of at least one individual from layer II (4,160±180 years BP) of Sambaqui da Beirada in Saquarema, Rio de Janeiro.

Sula leucogaster – Mendes and Rodrigues 2024: 8.

Mendes and Rodrigues (2024) reported two bones of at least one individual from the Congonhas I (SC-LS-30) sambaqui in Tubarão, Santa Catarina .

Anhingidae Reichenbach

452. † Anhingidae indet. 1

Late Miocene – AM

Anhingidae – Souza-Filho and Guilherme 2015: 152.

“ave indeterminada” [?] – Muniz et al. 2018: 34.

“birds” [?] – Bissaro-Júnior et al. 2019: 65.

Souza-Filho and Guilherme (2015) mentioned anhingid material from the Talismã locality of Solimões Formation on the right bank of the Purus River, Amazonas, without developing further. Muniz et al. (2018) reported an indeterminate avian tarsometatarsus fragment collected during the 2015–2016 UFAC and USP campaign at the site. Bissaro-Júnior et al. (2019) mentioned bird material from the Talismã locality, though they cited Alvarenga and Guilherme (2003) as the source.

453. † Anhingidae indet. 2

Late Miocene – AC

Anhingidae [in part] – Hsiou et al. 2022b: 15.

Hsiou et al. (2022b) preliminarily reported anhingid cranial and post-cranial elements among material collected during the July 2022 expedition carried out by the staff of USP, UFAC, and ICMBio in the Upper Acre River. Post-cranial remains were later described by Guilherme et al. (2023), without further mention of cranial remains.