Aves - Psittaciformes - Psittaculidae
Alternative combination: Psittacus rodricanus
Full reference: A. Milne-Edwards. 1867. Une psittacien fossile de l'Île Rodrigue. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Cinquième Série, Zoolologie et Paléontologie 8:145-156
Belongs to Necropsittacus according to J. P. Hume 2007
See also del Hoyo et al. 2014, Günther and Newton 1879, Lambrecht 1933, Milne-Edwards 1867 and Milne-Edwards 1874
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Its type locality is Plaine Corail, Rodrigues (Jenner collection), which is in a Holocene cave siltstone in Mauritius
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Mauritius (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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