Scopus xenopus

Short description: Extinct bird

Scopus xenopus

Temporal range: Pliocene

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Aves
Order:  | Pelecaniformes
Family:  | Scopidae
Genus:  | Scopus
Species:  |

†S. xenopus

Binomial name
†Scopus xenopus

Olson, 1984

Scopus xenopus is an extinct species of hamerkop that lived during the Pliocene of South Africa . It was first described by Storrs L. Olson in 1984. Compared to S. umbretta, the modern hamerkop, S. xenopus was larger and had a foot structure more adapted to swimming.[1]

## References

1. ↑ Olson, Storrs L. (January 1984). "A hamerkop from the early Pliocene of South Africa (Aves: Scopidae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 97 (4). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237377743.

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