Aves - Caprimulgiformes - Caprimulgidae

Full reference: C. Mourer-Chauviré. 1989. Les Caprimulgiformes et les Coraciiformes de l'Éocène et de l'Oligocène des phosphorites du Quercy et description de deux genres nouveaux de Podargidae et Nyctibiidae. Acta XIX congressus internationalis ornithologici 2047-2055

Belongs to Euronyctibius according to C. Mourer-Chauviré 1989

See also Mlikovsky 2002

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN QU 16231, a limb element (right humerus). Its type locality is Phosphorites du Quercy (old collections - late Eocene), which is in an Eocene karst phosphorite in the Quercy Phosphorites Formation of France.

Ecology: volant insectivore

Distribution: found only at Phosphorites du Quercy (old collections - late Eocene)

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