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Archaeopsittacus
Fossil range: Late Oligocene/Early Miocene
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Psittaciformes
Family:Psittacidae
Subfamily:Psittacinae?
Genus:Archaeopsittacus
Species:A. verreauxi
Binomial name
Archaeopsittacus verreauxi
(A. Milne-Edwards, 1870)
Synonyms
  • Psittacus verreauxii (lapsus)
    A. Milne-Edwards, 1870
Archaeopsittacus is a genus of prehistoric parrot. It is known from deposits of either Late Oligocene or Early Miocene age (c. 23 mya) at Verreaux near Saint-Gérand-le-Puy, France. A single species, Archaeopsittacus verreauxi[1], is known.

The genus was apparently close to the Old World lineages of parrots and might conceivably be assigned to the modern subfamily Psittacinae - either in the strict sense (i.e. including the African parrots and possibly the Asian parrots and parakeets) or in the loose sense (including all psittaciforms except some or all of lories, cockatoos, Nestorinae, kakapo and Arini), despite its early age. Its lack of apomorphies prevents any better placement until more material is found.(Mayr & Göhlich 2004)

References

  • Mayr, Gerald & Göhlich, Ursula B. (2004): A new parrot from the Miocene of Germany, with comments on the variation of hypotarsus morphology in some Psittaciformes. Belgian Journal of Zoology 134(1): 47-54. PDF fulltext
  • Milne-Edwards, Alphonse (1870): Observations sur la faune ornithologique du Bourbonnais pendant la période tertiaire moyenne. C. R. hebd. Acad. sci. 70(11): 557-559. Fulltext at Gallica

Footnotes

1. ^ Etymology: "Ancient parrot from Verreaux". Archaeopsittacus, from Ancient Greek archaeo-, "ancient" + psittacus, "parrot" (chosen by Milne-Edwards to denote the similarities to the modern genus Psittacus). verreauxi, Latin for "from Verreaux".
The Chattian (also known as Chickasawhayan or Late Oligocene) is the second and final of two stages of the Oligocene Epoch. It spans the time between 28.4 ± 0.1 Ma and 23.03 ± 0.05 Ma (million years ago).
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The Early Miocene (also known as Lower Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages: the Aquitanian and Burdigalian stages.

The sub-epoch lasted from 23.03 ± 0.05 mya to 15.97 ± 0.05 mya (million years ago). It was preceded by the Oligocene epoch.
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conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. Many factors are taken into account when assessing the conservation status of a species: not simply the number remaining, but the
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FOSSIL is a standard for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under the DOS operating system.
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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Psittaciformes
Wagler, 1830

Systematics

(but see below)

Family Cacatuidae (cockatoos)
  • Subfamily Microglossinae (Palm Cockatoo)
  • Subfamily Calyptorhynchinae (dark cockatoos)
  • Subfamily Cacatuinae (white cockatoos)

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Psittacidae
Illiger, 1811

Subfamily
Loriinae (lories and lorikeets)
Psittacinae (typical parrots and allies)

The true parrots are about 330 species of bird belonging to the Psittacidae
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Psittacinae

Tribes

Psittrichadini (Pesquet's Parrot)
Nestorini (Kea and relatives)
Strigopini (Kakapo)
Micropsittini (Pygmy parrots)
Cyclopsitticini (Fig parrots)
Platycercini (Broad-tailed parrots)
Psittaculini (Asian psittacines)
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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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Alphonse Milne-Edwards (October 13, 1835 - April 21, 1900) was a French ornithologist and carcinologist. He was English in origin and the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards MP who was a West Indian planter who settled at Bruges in France.
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1840s  1850s  1860s  - 1870s -  1880s  1890s  1900s
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In scientific nomenclature, synonyms are different scientific names used for a single taxon. Usage and terminology are different for zoology and botany.

Zoology

In zoological nomenclature, synonyms are different scientific names that pertain to the same taxon, for example
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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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Psittaciformes
Wagler, 1830

Systematics

(but see below)

Family Cacatuidae (cockatoos)
  • Subfamily Microglossinae (Palm Cockatoo)
  • Subfamily Calyptorhynchinae (dark cockatoos)
  • Subfamily Cacatuinae (white cockatoos)

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The Oligocene epoch is a geologic period that extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the period are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are slightly
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The Miocene Epoch is a period of time that extends from about 23.03 to 5.332 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the start and end are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are uncertain.
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mya or "m.y.a." is an abbreviation for million years ago. This abbreviation is commonly used as a unit of time to denote length of time before the present or "B.P." (before AD 1950). Specifically, one mya is equal to 106 years ago.
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Commune of
Saint-Gérand-le-Puy

Location
Longitude 03° 30' 46" East
Latitude 46° 15' 31" North

Administration
Country  France
Arrondissement Vichy
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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"


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Psittacinae

Tribes

Psittrichadini (Pesquet's Parrot)
Nestorini (Kea and relatives)
Strigopini (Kakapo)
Micropsittini (Pygmy parrots)
Cyclopsitticini (Fig parrots)
Platycercini (Broad-tailed parrots)
Psittaculini (Asian psittacines)
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Lory may refer too:
  • Lory, any one of a number of brush-tongued Australasian parrots belonging the Loriinae subfamily of lories and lorikeets
  • Lory (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), a parrot character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

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Cacatuidae
GR Gray, 1840

Subfamily

Microglossinae
Calyptorhynchinae
Cacatuinae

A cockatoo is any of the 21 bird species belonging to the family Cacatuidae.
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Nestorini

Genus: Nestor
Lesson, 1830

Species

N. notabilis
N. meridionalis
N. productus
The genus Nestor, the only genus of the Nestorini
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Strigopini

Genus: Strigops
Gray, 1845

Species: S. habroptilus

Binomial name
Strigops habroptilus
Gray, 1845
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Arini may refer to:
  • Neotropical parrots
  • Arini, a village in Găiceana Commune, Bacău County, Romania
  • Arini, a village in Măieruş Commune, Braşov County, Romania
  • Arini, a village in the Ilia prefecture, Greece

See also


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    Cladistics is a philosophy of classification that arranges organisms only by their order of branching in an evolutionary tree and not by their morphological similarity, in the words of Luria et al. (1981).
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    Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, or simply Comptes rendus, is a French scientific journal which has been published since 1835. It is the proceedings of the French Academy of Sciences.
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