Archaeodromus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Family: | †Archaeotrogonidae |
| Genus: | †Archaeodromus Mayr, 2021 |
| Species: | †A. anglicus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Archaeodromus anglicus Mayr, 2021
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Archaeodromus anglicus is a species of prehistoric bird in the family Archaeotrogonidae, found in the Early Ypresian of the London Clay formation. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Archaeodromus. Both species and genus were described in 2021 by Gerald Mayr.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Mayr, Gerald (November 2021). "An early Eocene fossil from the British London Clay elucidates the evolutionary history of the enigmatic Archaeotrogonidae (Aves, Strisores)". Papers in Palaeontology. 7 (4): 2049–2064. doi:10.1002/spp2.1392.
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