The World’s Oldest Owl: A New Strigiform from the Paleocene of Southwestern Colorado
| dc.contributor.author | Vickers-Rich, Patricia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bohaska, David J. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-24T01:33:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-08-24T01:33:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1976 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Among the fossils recovered from a small, mid-Paleocene fissure filling in southwestern Colorado is the oldest known owl, <i>Ogygoptynx wetmorei</i>, new genus and species. This form, represented by a single tarsometatarsus, does not clearly belong in any of the known families of Strigiformes and may represent a new higher category of owls that provides a link between the Strigidae and the Tytonidae. | |
| dc.format.extent | 87–93 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Vickers-Rich, Patricia and Bohaska, David J. 1976. "<a href="https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/117200">The World’s Oldest Owl: A New Strigiform from the Paleocene of Southwestern Colorado</a>." In <em>Collected papers in avian paleontology honoring the 90th birthday of Alexander Wetmore</em>. 87–93. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. In <em> Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology</em>, 27. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.27.87">https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.27.87</a>. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10088/117200 | |
| dc.publisher | Smithsonian Institution Press | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Collected papers in avian paleontology honoring the 90th birthday of Alexander Wetmore | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 27 0081-0266 (print) ; 1943-6688 (online) | |
| dc.title | The World’s Oldest Owl: A New Strigiform from the Paleocene of Southwestern Colorado | |
| dc.type | chapter | |
| sro.description.unit | nmnh | |
| sro.description.unit | nh-paleobiology | |
| sro.identifier.doi | 10.5479/si.00810266.27.87 | |
| sro.identifier.itemID | 170319 | |
| sro.identifier.refworksID | 102194 | |
| sro.identifier.url | https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/117200 | |
| sro.publicationPlace | Washington, D.C. |
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