Foro panarium Olson 1992 (cuckoo)

Aves - Cuculiformes - Foratidae

Full reference: S. L. Olson. 1992. A new family of primitive landbirds from the early Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming. Papers in avian paleontology honoring Pierce Brodkorb 36:127-136

Belongs to Foro according to S. L. Olson 1992

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 336261, a skeleton (Essentially complete associated skeleton). Its type locality is Thompson Quarry, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial horizon in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Thompson Quarry

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