Jump to content

Collocalia buday

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Pvmoutside (talk | contribs) at 01:22, 19 May 2019 (Added speciesbox). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Collocalia buday
Temporal range: Late Oligocene to Early Miocene, 28–16 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Apodidae
Genus: Collocalia
Species:
C. buday
Binomial name
Collocalia buday
Boles, 2001

Collocalia buday is an extinct species of large swiftlet from the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene of Australia. It was described in 2001 by Walter Boles from fossil material found at Riversleigh, in the Boodjamulla National Park of north-western Queensland.[1]

References

  1. ^ Boles, W. E. (2001). "A swiftlet (Apodidae: Collocaliini) from the Oligo-Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland". Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. 25: 45–52.