Aves - Falconiformes - Falconidae

Alternative combination: Lagopterus minutus

Full reference: F. P. Moreno and A. Mercerat. 1891. Catálogo de los pájaros fósiles de la República Argentina conservados en el Museo de La Plata [Catalogue of the fossil birds from the Argentine Republic housed in the Museo de La Plata]. Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 1:7-71

Belongs to Asthenopterus according to C. P. Tambussi et al. 2023

See also Lambrecht 1933 and Moreno and Mercerat 1891

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Museo de La Plata, a limb element (humerus). Its type locality is Lujan, which is in a Lujanian terrestrial horizon in the Lujan Formation of Argentina.

Distribution: found only at Lujan

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