Tyto richae
| Tyto richae Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Strigiformes |
| Family: | Tytonidae |
| Genus: | Tyto |
| Species: | †T. richae
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| †Tyto richae Pavia et. al., 2015
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Tyto richae is an extinct species of Tyto that lived in South Africa during the Early Pliocene, its fossils having been discovered in the Varswater Formation.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Marco Pavia; Albrecht Manegold; Pippa Haarhoff (2015). "Early Pliocene owls from Langebaanweg, South Africa, with first evidence of the genus Athene south of the Sahara and the description of a new species of Tyto". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 60 (4): 815–828. doi:10.4202/app.00077.2014.
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