Telmabates is an extinct genus of presbyornithidE. N. Kurochkin, G. J. Dyke, and A. A. Karhu. (2002). A new presbyornithid bird (Aves, Anseriformes) from the Late Cretaceous of southern Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 3386:1-11 bird from the Eocene Bird Clay Locality of the Sarmiento Formation of Chubut Province, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, T. antiquus.
Telmabates antiquus was named and described by Howard (1955).H. Howard. (1955). A new wading bird from the Eocene of Patagonia. American Museum Novitates 1710:1-25 A second species, T. howardae was named by Cracraft (1970), but De Mendoza, Degrange & Tambussi (2024) moved T. howardae to the new species Wunketru howardae as they found the species to be separate from Telmabates.
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