Miocoracias

Miocoracias Temporal range: Early Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Coraciiformes
Family:	Coraciidae
Genus:	† Miocoracias
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.