A Tiny Barbet-like Bird from the Lower Oligocene of Germany: the Smallest Species and Earliest Substantial Fossil Record of the Pici (woodpeckers and Allies)
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T of woodpeckers and allies (Pici) is very poor, but the members of this group—barbets and toucans (Ramphastidae including “Capitonidae”; see Prum 1988); honeyguides (Indicatoridae); and woodpeckers, wrynecks, and piculets (Picidae)—today have an almost worldwide distribution and occur in most forested habitats (del Hoyo et al. 2002). Paleogene (pre-Miocene; i.e. older than 23 Ma) remains of the Pici were described from the Lower Oligocene of Belgium (Mayr and Smith 2001) and the Upper Oligocene of Germany (Mayr 2001) but consist of fragmentary A TINY BARBET-LIKE BIRD FROM THE LOWER OLIGOCENE OF GERMANY: THE SMALLEST SPECIES AND EARLIEST SUBSTANTIAL FOSSIL RECORD OF THE PICI (WOODPECKERS AND ALLIES)
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