Eurotrochilus

Taxobox
name = "Eurotrochilus"
fossil_range= Early Oligocene


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Apodiformes
familia = Trochilidae
genus = "Eurotrochilus"
genus_authority = Mayr, 2004
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"E. inexpectatus" Mayr, 2004
*"E. noniewiczii" (Bieńkowska, 2007)

"Eurotrochilus" is an extinct genus of primitive 30-million-year-old hummingbird (E. inexpectatus) from the Early Oligocene of Germany and 31-million-year-old (E. noniewiczii) of Poland.

ources

*http://www.springerlink.com/index/3753080U72147545.pdf
*http://www.eurekalert.org/features/kids/2004-05/aaft-woh020805.php

External links

* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=91335 "Eurotrochilus"] in the Paleobiology Database