Foro panarium
Extinct genus of birds
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Foro panarium is an extinct bird of disputed taxonomic status that lived during the early to mid-Eocene around the Ypresian-Lutetian boundary, some 48 million years ago. F. panarium is known from fossils found in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.
| Foro panarium | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Musophagiformes |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Foro Olson, 1992 |
| Species: | †F. panarium |
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| †Foro panarium Olson, 1992 | |
The taxonomical relations of F. panarium remain unclear. It is sometimes placed in a distinct family Foratidae. It was considered possibly related to cuckoos, turacos and/or the puzzling hoatzin of the Amazon.[1] A phylogenetic analysis conducted by Field & Hsiang (2018) indicated that F. panarium was a stem-turaco.[2]
Its scientific name is a Latin / German / English pun in homage to ornithologist Pierce Brodkorb.[citation needed]
