Xenavicula
Appearance
Xenavicula Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Genus: | †Xenavicula |
Species: | †X. pamelae
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Binomial name | |
†Xenavicula pamelae Mayr & Kitchener, 2024
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Xenavicula is an extinct genus of bird that lived during the Ypresian stage of the Eocene epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Xenavicula pamelae fossils are known from the Walton Member of the London Clay Formation.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Mayr, Gerald; Kitchener, Andrew C. (14 October 2024). "Two distinctive, but difficult-to-classify, avian species and a new trogon (Trogoniformes) from the early Eocene London Clay". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 312 (3): 309–323. Bibcode:2024NJGPA.312..309M. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2024/1216. ISSN 0077-7749. Retrieved 1 March 2025 – via Schweizerbart Science Publishers.