Xenopsitta
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xenopsitta-306-12411169
title:
Xenopsitta
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Xenopsitta is a prehistoric parrot genus known from a fossil tarsometatarsus in early Miocene deposits at Merkur, in western Bohemia of the Czech Republic, and described by Jiri Mlikovsky in 1998. The type species is Xenopsitta fejfari. The generic name derives from the Greek for "foreign" or "strange", referring to the apparent scarcity of parrots in the Miocene of Europe, and a diminutive form of the Latin for "parrot". The specific epithet honours Czech palaeontologist Oldrich Fejfar. It was
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description:
Extinct genus of birds
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenopsitta
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date modified:
2024-01-01T23:36:40Z
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