Lithoptila
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| Genus: | Lithoptila
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| Species: | L. abdounensis
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| Lithoptila abdounensis Bourdon, E. et al. 2005[1]
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Lithoptila abdounensis is an extinct species of seabird that lived during the Late Paleocene (Thanetian) of Morocco. It is a distant relative of the tropicbirds.
References
- ^ Bourdon, E. (2005) Earliest African neornithine bird: a new species of Prophaethontidae (Aves) from the Paleocene of Morocco. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25(1):157-170.
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