Protoazin
Appearance
Protoazin Temporal range: Late Eocene
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Opisthocomiformes |
Family: | Opisthocomidae |
Genus: | †Protoazin Mayr & De Pietri 2014 |
Species: | †P. parisiensis
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Binomial name | |
†Protoazin parisiensis Mayr & De Pietri, 2014
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Protoazin is an extinct genus of early hoatzin[1] from late Eocene (about 36 mya) deposits of France.
References
[edit]- ^ 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. Bibcode:2014NW....101..143M. doi:10.1007/s00114-014-1144-8. PMID 24441712. S2CID 14060583.