Neogaeornis
Extinct genus of birds / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neogaeornis is a controversial prehistoric genus of diving bird. The single known species, Neogaeornis wetzeli, was described from fossils found in the Campanian to Maastrichtian Quiriquina Formation of Chile. It lived about 70-67 million years ago. It remains known from the single tarsometatarsus described in 1929 by Lambrecht, and today housed in the Paläontologisches Institut und Museum in Kiel, Germany.[2]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Avialae |
Order: | †Vegaviiformes |
Family: | †Vegaviidae |
Genus: | †Neogaeornis Lambrecht 1929[1] |
Species: | †N. wetzeli |
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†Neogaeornis wetzeli Lambrecht 1929 | |
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