Arenicolumba
| Arenicolumba prattae Temporal range:Early Miocene
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Genus: | †Arenicolumba Steadman,2008 |
| Species: | †A. prattae
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| †Arenicolumba prattae (Becker & Brodkorb, 1992)
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Arenicolumba prattaeis anextinctspeciesof smallpigeonfrom the Miocene of Florida. It wasdescribedfromfossilmaterial ( a leftcoracoid) collected at theThomas Farm SiteinGilchrist County,northernFlorida,south-eastern United States. The genus nameArenicolumbacomes from theLatinarena( "sandy place" ) with reference to the sandy, fossiliferous sediments of the collection site, andcolumba( "pigeon" ). Originally described in 1992 asColumbina prattae,it was moved to the new genus in 2008.[1]
References
[edit]- ^Steadman, David W. (2008)."Doves (Columbidae) and cuckoos (Cuculidae) from the Early Miocene of Florida"(PDF).Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History.48(1): 1–16.
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