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Lophopsittacus mauritianus (broad-billed parrot)
Taxonomy
Psittacus mauritianus was named by Owen (1866). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mare aux Songes swamp (Clark collection), which is in a Holocene mire/swamp peat in Mauritius.
It was recombined as Lophopsittacus mauritianus by Newton and Gadow (1893), Lambrecht (1933), Hume (2007), del Hoyo et al. (2014).
It was recombined as Lophopsittacus mauritianus by Newton and Gadow (1893), Lambrecht (1933), Hume (2007), del Hoyo et al. (2014).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1866 | Psittacus mauritianus Owen p. 168 fig. 1,2 |
| 1893 | Lophopsittacus mauritianus Newton and Gadow p. 283 figs. Pl 33, figs 1-8 |
| 1933 | Lophopsittacus mauritianus Lambrecht p. 609 |
| 2007 | Lophopsittacus mauritianus Hume p. 9 figs. 2A,B, 3, 5a, 6B,C, 14I,J, 20A,B,F,G, 21A,B, 23A, 24A, 27F, 28D, 29A |
| 2014 | Lophopsittacus mauritianus del Hoyo et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Lophopsittacus mauritianus Owen 1866 [broad-billed parrot]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983 | |||||