Pandion homalopteron

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Pandion homalopteron
Temporal range: Middle Miocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Pandionidae
Genus: Pandion
Species:
P. homalopteron
Binomial name
Pandion homalopteron
Warter, 1976

Pandion homalopteron is an extinct species of Pandion [1] that lived during the Middle Miocene.

Distribution

Pandion homalopteron is known from the Temblor Formation of California. [2]

References

  1. Monti, Flavio; Duriez, Olivier; Arnal, Véronique; Dominici, Jean-Marie; Sforzi, Andrea; Fusani, Leonida; Grémillet, David; Montgelard, Claudine (2015). "Being cosmopolitan: evolutionary history and phylogeography of a specialized raptor, the Osprey Pandion haliaetus". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15 (1). doi: 10.1186/s12862-015-0535-6 . ISSN   1471-2148. PMC   4650845 . PMID   26577665.
  2. Warter, Stuart L. (1976). "A New Osprey from the Miocene of California (Falconiformes: Pandionidae)" (PDF). In Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore Ed.: Storrs. L. Olson; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 27: 133–139.