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Glaucidium kurochkini Campbell and Bocheński, 2013

Kurochkin's pygmy owl

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

California, USA

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Campbell, K. E., Jr., and Bocheński, Z. M. (2013). Two new late Pleistocene miniature owls from Rancho La Brea, California. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58(4): 707-721.

 

Other references:

Campbell, Kenneth E. Jnr. and Bochenski, Zbigniew M. (2015). The Owls (Aves: Strigiformes) of Rancho La Brea, pp. 5-21. In: Harris, John M. (ed.). La Brea and Beyond: The Paleontology of Asphalt-Preserved Biotas. Los Angeles, California: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series No. 42. 174 pp.

Stock, C., and J. M. Harris. 1992. Rancho la Brea: A record of Pleistocene life in California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series no. 37, 7th ed.:i-xiv + 1-113.

 

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