Phoebastria rexsularum

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Phoebastria rexsularum
Temporal range: Early Pliocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Diomedeidae
Genus: Phoebastria
Species:
P. rexsularum
Binomial name
Phoebastria rexsularum
Olson & Rasmussen, 2001

Phoebastria rexsularum is an extinct species of Phoebastria that lived during the Zanclean stage of the Pliocene epoch.

Distribution

Phoebastria rexsularum is known from the Yorktown Formation of North Carolina. [1]

References

  1. Olson, Storrs L.; Rasmussen, Pamela C. (2001). "Miocene and Pliocene Birds from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology . 90: 233–365. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.90.233.