Aves - Strigiformes - Protostrigidae

Alternative combination: Minerva saurodosis

Full reference: A. Wetmore. 1921. A fossil owl from the Bridger Eocene. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 73:455-458

Belongs to Protostrix according to A. Wetmore 1937

See also Hay 1930, Lambrecht 1933, Wetmore 1921, Wetmore 1933, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956

Sister taxa: Protostrix californiensis, Protostrix leptosteus

Type specimen: A.N.S.P. no. 9131, a limb element (distal end of left humerus). Its type locality is Lodge-Pole Trail, which is in a Bridgerian terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.

Distribution: found only at Lodge-Pole Trail

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