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Chaunoides

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Chaunoides
Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anhimidae
Genus: Chaunoides
Alvarenga, 1999
Species:
C. antiquus
Binomial name
Chaunoides antiquus
Alvarenga, 1999

Chaunoides is an extinct genus of screamer.[1][2] Only one species of this genus is known, namely Chaunoides antiquus.

References

  1. ^ Mourer-Chauviré, Cécile; Berthet, Didier; Hugueney, Marguerite (2004-12-01). "The late Oligocene birds of the Créchy quarry (Allier, France), with a description of two new genera (Aves: Pelecaniformes: Phalacrocoracidae, and Anseriformes: Anseranatidae)". Senckenbergiana Lethaea. 84 (1): 303–315. doi:10.1007/BF03043473. ISSN 0037-2110. S2CID 84323461.
  2. ^ Alvarenga, Herculano (1999). A Fossil Screamer (Anseriformes: Anhimidae) from the Middle Tertiary of Southeastern Brazil. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.