Protoazin

<i>Protoazin</i>

Protoazin

Extinct genus of birds

Protoazin is an extinct genus of early hoatzin[1] from late Eocene (about 36 mya) deposits of France.

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References

  1. [1]
    Gerald Mayr and Vanesa L. De Pietri (2014). "Earliest and first Northern Hemispheric hoatzin fossils substantiate Old World origin of a "Neotropic endemic"". Naturwissenschaften. 101 (2): 143–148. Bibcode:2014NW....101..143M. doi:10.1007/s00114-014-1144-8. PMID 24441712. S2CID 14060583.


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