Capitonides
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Capitonides Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Capitonidae |
Genus: | †Capitonides Ballmann, 1969 |
Species: | †C. europeus
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Binomial name | |
†Capitonides europeus Ballmann, 1969
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Capitonides is an extinct piciform from the Middle Miocene of southern Germany. C. europaeus is the only species recorded for the genus.[1] Carroll (1988) assigned the genus to family Capitonidae.[2]
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