Fluvioviridavis
| Fluvioviridavis Temporal range: Early Eocene
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| Genus: | Fluvioviridavis Mayr & Daniels, 2001[1]
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| Species: | F. platyrhamphus
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| Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus Mayr & Daniels, 2001
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Fluvioviridavis is an extinct genus of primitive bird from Early Eocene of Wyoming.[2] There are only one species recorded, F. platyrhamphus.
References
- ^ Mayr, G. & Daniels, M. 2001. "A new short-legged landbird from the early Eocene of Wyoming and contemporaneous European sites". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 46 (3): 393-402
- ^ Nesbitt, S. J.; Ksepka, D. T.; Clarke, J. A. (2011). Iwaniuk, Andrew (ed.). "Podargiform Affinities of the Enigmatic Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus and the Early Diversification of Strisores ("Caprimulgiformes" + Apodiformes)". PLoS ONE. 6 (11): e26350. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026350. PMC 3227577. PMID 22140427.
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