Pujatopouli () is an extinct genus of neoavian birds from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian stage) Lopez de Bertodano Formation of Seymour Island (Marambio Island), Antarctica. The genus contains a single species, Pujatopouli soberana, known from a partially preserved skull and several associated postcranial elements, representing one of the most complete Neornithes (crown group bird) from the Mesozoic era.
Pujatopouli () is an extinct genus of neoavian birds from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian stage) Lopez de Bertodano Formation of Seymour Island (Marambio Island), Antarctica. The genus contains a single species, Pujatopouli soberana, known from a partially preserved skull and several associated postcranial elements, representing one of the most complete Neornithes (crown group bird) from the Mesozoic era.
==Discovery and naming== thumb|left|Facundo Irazoqui (center) with co-authors Javier Gelfo (left) and Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche (right) The Pujatopouli holotype specimen, MLP-PV 08-XI-30-44, was discovered from the upper Molluscan Allomember of the Lopez de Bertodano Formation, corresponding to the 9th cartographic unit identified from the Seymour Island. The specimen preserves the partial skull, four presacral thoracic vertebrae, distal (lower) end of the right humerus, proximal (upper) end of the left ulna, partial pelvis, synsacrum, left tibiotarsus, and sternum fragment. The cranium preserves a posterior portion, a partial beak and a nearly complete braincase, which is the first known among Mesozoic Neornithes.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).