Biology:Tsidiiyazhi
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Short description: Genus of fossil mousebird
Tsidiiyazhi | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Coraciimorphae |
Order: | Coliiformes |
Family: | †Sandcoleidae |
Genus: | †Tsidiiyazhi Ksepka et al., 2017 |
Species | |
†Tsidiiyazhi abini Ksepka et al., 2017 |
Tsidiiyazhi abini (Navajo: little morning bird) is an extinct relative of the modern mousebirds, found in 2017 in the Nacimiento Formation on ancestral Navajo lands in New Mexico. It is the only species in the genus Tsidiiyazhi. It lived between 62.2 and 62.5 million years ago,[1] making it one of the oldest Cenozoic birds yet described.
References
Wikidata ☰ Q74375431 entry
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