Chambicuculus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cuculiformes |
| Family: | Cuculidae |
| Genus: | †Chambicuculus |
| Species: | †C. pusillus
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| †Chambicuculus pusillus Mourer-Chauviré et. al., 2013
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Chambicuculus is an extinct genus of cuculid that lived during the Eocene epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Chambicuculus pusillus is known from the Chambi Formation of Tunisia.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Cécile Mourer-Chauviré; Rodolphe Tabuce; El Mabrouk Essid; Laurent Marivaux; Hayet Khayati; Monique Vianey-Liaud; Mustapha Ben Haj Ali (2013). "A new taxon of stem group Galliformes and the earliest record for stem group Cuculidae from the Eocene of Djebel Chambi, Tunisia" (PDF). In Ursula B. Göhlich; Andreas Kroh (eds.). Paleornithological Research 2013. Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Vienna, 2012. Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. pp. 1–15. ISBN 978-3-902421-82-1.
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