Protoazin Mayr and De Pietri 2014 (bird)

Aves - Opisthocomiformes - Opisthocomidae

Full reference: G. Mayr and V. L. De Pietri. 2014. Earliest and first Northern Hemispheric hoatzin fossils substantiate Old World origin of a "Neotropic endemic". Naturwissenschaften 101:143-148

Parent taxon: Opisthocomidae according to G. Mayr and V. L. De Pietri 2014

Sister taxa: Hoazinavis, Hoazinoides, Namibiavis, Opisthocomus

Subtaxa: Protoazin parisiensis

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Ecology: volant folivore

Distribution: found only at Romainville, marnes blanches supragypseuses, MP20 (Eocene of France)

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