Hunucornis

Hunucornis
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Podicipediformes
Family: Podicipedidae
Genus: †Hunucornis
Agnolín et al., 2025
Type species
†Hunucornis huayanen
Agnolín et al., 2025

Hunucornis huayanen is an extinct grebe species from the Las Flores Formation, a Miocene-aged deposit in central Argentina. It is known from two specimens containing fragmentary pieces of the left forelimb and femur. It is the oldest fossil evidence of grebes in South America.

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