Palaeospiza_bella

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Palaeospiza

Genus of fossil mousebird

Palaeospiza bella ("beautiful ancient chaffinch") is a bird which was originally considered a passerine but is now included in the Coliiformes.[2] Palaeospiza bella lived in what is now Colorado in the Eocene and Oligocene.[1]

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References

  1. [1]
    Affinities of Palaeospiza bella and the Phylogeny and Biogeography of Mousebirds (Coliiformes)
  2. [2]
    Mayr, G. (2001). New specimens of the Middle Eocene fossil mousebird Selmes absurdipes Peters 1999. Ibis, 143(4), 427–434.


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