Rivero's barn owl
Extinct species of bird
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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]
| Rivero's barn owl Temporal range: Pleistocene | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Strigiformes |
| Family: | Tytonidae |
| Genus: | Tyto |
| Species: | T. riveroi |
| Binomial name | |
| Tyto riveroi Arredondo, 1972 | |
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