Talk:Owlet-nightjar
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Fossil record
[edit]Removed: "They were thought to have originated in Australasia or Southeast Asia, but the recent discovery of owlet-nightjar fossils in France dating back to the Oligocene[citation needed] suggests otherwise."
- Depending on when exactly in the Oligocene, these were probably other cypselomorph birds, phylogenetically roughly between owlet-nightjars and treeswifts. In the late Oligocene, owlet-nightjars were distinct, but in the Early Oligocene, they could not be very well distinguished except from good specimens. I strongly suspect these supposed French owlet-nightjars to be late Aegialornithidae or Jungornithidae instead. These groups were, essentially, owlet-nightjar's damn close relatives from continental Eurasia. A Google search for aegothelidae france oligocene seems to turn up no information Dysmorodrepanis 21:13, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
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