Lithoptila
Appearance
Lithoptila | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Phaethontiformes |
Family: | †Prophaethontidae |
Genus: | †Lithoptila Bourdon, 2005 |
Species: | †L. abdounensis
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Binomial name | |
†Lithoptila abdounensis Bourdon, E. et al. 2005[1]
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Lithoptila abdounensis is an extinct species of seabird that lived during the Late Paleocene (Thanetian) of Morocco. It is a distant relative of the tropicbirds.
References
[edit]- ^ Bourdon, Estelle; Bouya, Baâdi; Iarochene, Mohamed (2005). "Earliest African neornithine bird: A new species of prophaethontidae (Aves) from the Paleocene of Morocco". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25: 157. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0157:EANBAN]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 86218884.