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Rivero's barn owl

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Rivero's barn owl
Temporal range: Pleistocene
Restoration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Tytonidae
Genus: Tyto
Species:
T. riveroi
Binomial name
Tyto riveroi
Arredondo, 1972

Rivero's barn owl (Tyto riveroi) is an extinct species of barn owl that was very large — bigger than any extant barn owl species, and possibly larger than any known owl alive today.[1] It is thought to have been nearly as large as (but probably not as tall as) another extinct gigantic owl, Ornimegalonyx.[2] Suárez and Olson demoted T. riveroi as a junior synonym of Tyto pollens in 2015.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Arredondo, Oscar (December 1972). "Especie Nueva de Lechuza Gigante (Strigiformes: Tytonidae) del Pleistoceno Cubano" (PDF). Separata del Boletín de la Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales (in Spanish). 30 (124/125): 129–140.
  2. ^ Arredondo, Oscar. "The Great Predatory Birds of the Pleistocene of Cuba" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology: 169–187. Retrieved 13 July 2017. "Reprinted from: "Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore," Storrs L. Olson, editor, 21 May 1976"
  3. ^ Suárez, William; Olson, Storrs L. (2015-09-23). "Systematics and distribution of the giant fossil barn owls of the West Indies (Aves: Strigiformes: Tytonidae)". Zootaxa. 4020 (3): 533. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4020.3.7. ISSN 1175-5334.