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Micrathene (elf owl)
Taxonomy
Micrathene was named by Coues (1866). It is extant.
It was assigned to Strigidae by Mead et al. (1984).
It was assigned to Strigidae by Mead et al. (1984).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1866 | Micrathene Coues |
| 1984 | Micrathene Mead et al. p. 262 |
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G. Micrathene Coues 1866 [elf owl]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order | |||||
| References: Marsh 1875, Thiollay 1994, Kurochkin and Dyke 2011, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene (late glacial) | USA (Arizona) | Micrathene whitneyi (93374) |