Miocoracias

Miocoracias
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Coraciidae
Genus: †
Species:
†M. chenevali
Binomial name
†Miocoracias chenevali
Mourer-Chauviré et. al., 2013

Miocoracias is an extinct genus of coraciid that lived during the Early Miocene.

Distribution

Miocoracias chenevali is known from the site of Saint-Gérard-le-Puy in France.[1]

References

  1. ^ Cécile Mourer-Chauviré; Jean-Baptiste Peyrouse; Marguerite Hugueney (2013). "A new roller (Aves: Coraciiformes s. s.: Coraciidae) from the Early Miocene of the Saint-Gérand-le-Puy area, Allier, France" (PDF). In Ursula B. Göhlich; Andreas Kroh (eds.). Paleornithological Research 2013. Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Vienna, 2012. Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. pp. 81–92. ISBN 978-3-902421-82-1.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.