Een fossiel van de aalscholver Phalacrocorax carbo cf. carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) van de locatie Smiths Knoll, Noordzee

In 2016 a fragment of a bird synsacrum was dredged up by the fishing vessel TX 38 from Smiths Knoll off the coast of Lowestoft in the English part of the North Sea, which was subsequently donated to the Natural History Museum Rotterdam (NMR), where it was catalogued as NMR 998900005177. The fragment’s fossilisation suggests a Pleistocene age. It is compared with recent specimens in the NMR collection and the literature and identified as great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo cf. carbo (Linnaeus, 1758). It adds to the scarce record of bird fossils from the southern part of the North Sea.