Biology:Capitonides
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Short description: Extinct genus of birds
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Capitonidae |
| Genus: | †Capitonides Ballmann, 1969 |
| Species: | †C. europeus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Capitonides europeus Ballmann, 1969
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Capitonides is an extinct piciform from the Middle Miocene of southern Germany . C. europaeus is the only species recorded for the genus.[1] Carroll (1988) assigned the genus to family Capitonidae.[2]
References
Wikidata ☰ Q5035975 entry
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