†Protoazin parisiensis Mayr and De Pietri 2014 (bird)
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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
Belongs to Protoazin according to G. Mayr and V. L. De Pietri 2014
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NMB PG.70, a set of postcrania (partial left coracoid, extremitas cranialis of left scapula, and distal portion of pedal phalanx). Its type locality is Romainville, marnes blanches supragypseuses, MP20, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial marl in France.
Ecology: volant folivore
Distribution: found only at Romainville, marnes blanches supragypseuses, MP20
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