Protoazin

Protoazin; Temporal range: Late Eocene 36 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Opisthocomiformes
Family:	Opisthocomidae
Genus:	†Protoazin; Mayr & De Pietri 2014
Species:	†P. parisiensis
Binomial name
	†Protoazin parisiensis; Mayr & De Pietri, 2014

Protoazin is an extinct genus of early hoatzin^[1] from late Eocene (about 36 mya) deposits of France.

References[]

^ Gerald Mayr and Vanesa L. De Pietri (2014). "Earliest and first Northern Hemispheric hoatzin fossils substantiate Old World origin of a "Neotropic endemic"". Naturwissenschaften. 101 (2): 143–148. doi:10.1007/s00114-014-1144-8. PMID 24441712.

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