Aves - Strigiformes - Tytonidae
Full reference: C. Mourer-Chauvire, J. A. Alcover, S. Moya and J. Pons. 1980. Une nouvelle forme insulaire d'effraie geante, Tyto balearica n. sp. (Aves, Strigiformes), du Plio-Pleistocene des Baleares. Geobios 13(5):803-811
Belongs to Tyto according to J. Mlikovsky 2002
See also Mourer-Chauvire et al. 1980
Sister taxa: Tyto alba, Tyto cavatica, Tyto cravesae, Tyto gigantea, Tyto glaucops, Tyto letocarti, Tyto mourerchauvireae, Tyto noeli, Tyto novaehollandiae, Tyto ostologa, Tyto perlata, Tyto pollens
Type specimen: complete left coracoid, Cova de Canet, Mallorca, Spain, a limb element (complete left coracoid). Its type locality is Cova de Canet, which is in a Pliocene terrestrial horizon in Spain.
Ecology: volant carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Spain (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Spain (2)
• Pliocene of Spain (2)
• Miocene of Spain (2)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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