Biology:Lithoptila
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Lithoptila abdounensis is an extinct species of prophaethontid seabird that lived during the Palaeogene period. It is a distant relative of the tropicbirds.
Distribution
L. abdounensis lived in Morocco,[1] its fossils having been found in strata dating to both the Late Palaeocene and Early Eocene.[2]
References
- ↑ Bourdon, Estelle; Bouya, Baâdi; Iarochene, Mohamed (2005). "Earliest African neornithine bird: A new species of prophaethontidae (Aves) from the Paleocene of Morocco". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25: 157. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0157:EANBAN2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0272-4634. https://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025%5B0157:EANBAN%5D2.0.CO%3B2. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
- ↑ Bourdon, Estelle; Mourer-Chauviré, Cécile; Amaghzaz, Mbarek; Bouya, Baâdi (12 September 2008). [751:NSOLAA2.0.CO;2 "New specimens of Lithoptila abdounensis (Aves, Prophaethontidae) from the lower Paleogene of Morocco"] (in en). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (3): 751–761. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[751:NSOLAA2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0272-4634. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[751:NSOLAA]2.0.CO;2. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
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