Lithoptila
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.
Lithoptila | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Phaethontiformes |
Family: | †Prophaethontidae |
Genus: | †Lithoptila Bourdon, 2005 |
Species: | †L. abdounensis |
Binomial name | |
†Lithoptila abdounensis Bourdon, E. et al. 2005[1] | |
References
- Bourdon, E. (2005) Earliest African neornithine bird: a new species of Prophaethontidae (Aves) from the Paleocene of Morocco. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25(1):157-170.
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