Biology:Apatosagittarius
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Short description: Extinct genus of birds
| Apatosagittarius Temporal range: Middle-Late Miocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | †Apatosagittarius Feduccia & Voorhies, 1989 |
| Species: | †A. terrenus
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| †Apatosagittarius terrenus Feduccia & Voorhies, 1989
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Apatosagittarius is an extinct monotypic genus of Accipitridae from the Middle-Late Miocene of Nebraska. Only one species has been described, Apatosagittarius terrenus. The genus name, which Feduccia and Voorhies translate as "false secretarybird,"[1][2][3] refers to the bird's superficial resemblance to the living secretary bird.
References
- ↑ "Secretary Bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) Fact Sheet: Taxonomy & History". http://ielc.libguides.com/sdzg/factsheets/secretarybird/taxonomy.
- ↑ FEDUCCIA, ALAN, and MICHAEL R. VOORHIES. "Miocene hawk converges on secretarybird." Ibis 131.3 (1989): 349-354.Abstract
- ↑ Tucker, S. T., et al. "The geology and paleontology of Ashfall Fossil Beds, a late Miocene (Clarendonian) mass-death assemblage, Antelope County and adjacent Knox County, Nebraska, USA." GSA Field Guides 36 (2014): 1-22.
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