Perplexicervix

Perplexicervix is a genus of perplexicervicid bird that lived during the Eocene epoch. Its affinities are uncertain but similarities with Otidiformes were noted in tentatively assigned postcranial remains.^[1]

Perplexicervix Temporal range: Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Infraclass:	Neognathae
Genus:	†Perplexicervix Mayr 2010
Type species
†Perplexicervix microcephalon Mayr, 2010
Other species
P. paucituberculata

Distribution

P. paucituberculata remains hail from the Walton Member of the London Clay Formation and date back to the Ypresian.^[1] P. microcephalon appears in the eleventh Mammal-Paleogene zone of Hessen, Germany, its fossils having been found in the Messel Formation.^[2]