Pulchrapollia
Extinct genus of birds / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pulchrapollia is an extinct genus of halcyornithid bird from the Early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze, United Kingdom and the Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia, United States. The genus contains three species, Pulchrapollia gracilis, Pulchrapollia tenuipes and Pulchrapollia eximia.
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Pulchrapollia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Eufalconimorphae |
Family: | †Halcyornithidae |
Genus: | †Pulchrapollia Dyke & Cooper, 2000 |
Type species | |
†Pulchrapollia gracilis (Dyke & Cooper, 2000) |
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