Capitonides

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Capitonides
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Capitonidae
Genus: †Capitonides
Ballmann, 1969
Species: †C. europeus
Binomial name
Capitonides europeus
Ballmann, 1969

Capitonides is an extinct genus of piciform from the Middle Miocene of southern Germany. Only one species are recorded for genus, Capitonites europaeus.[1] Carroll (1988) assigned the genus to family Capitonidae.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Ballman, P. 1969. A New Species of Fossil Barbet (Aves: Piciformes) from the Middle Miocene of the Nördlinger Ries (Southern Germany). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 3 (1): 43-48.Abstract
  2. ↑ Carroll, R. L. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W. H Freeman Company, 1988.


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