Biology:Protoazin

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Short description: Extinct genus of birds


Protoazin
Temporal range: Late Eocene 36 Ma
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Opisthocomiformes
Family: Opisthocomidae
Genus: Protoazin
Mayr & De Pietri 2014
Species:
P. parisiensis
Binomial name
Protoazin parisiensis
Mayr & De Pietri, 2014

Protoazin is an extinct genus of early hoatzin[1] from late Eocene (about 36 mya) deposits of France .

References

  1. Gerald Mayr and Vanesa L. De Pietri (2014). "Earliest and first Northern Hemispheric hoatzin fossils substantiate Old World origin of a "Neotropic endemic"". Naturwissenschaften 101 (2): 143–148. doi:10.1007/s00114-014-1144-8. PMID 24441712. Bibcode2014NW....101..143M. 

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