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Mascarenotus ✝

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The Mascarene owls were those belonging to the genus Mascarenotus. They were restricted to islands in the Indian Ocean. All three species, the Réunion owl, Mauritius owl, and Rodrigues owl, are now extinct.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascarenotus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4843077	https://www.gbif.org/species/4843077
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	371449	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=371449

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Strigiformes : Strigidae : Mascarenotus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Theropoda
-	Neotheropoda	Bakker 1986
-	Averostra	Paul 2002
-	Tetanurae	Gauthier 1986
order	Avetheropoda	Paul 1988
suborder	Coelurosauria	Huene 1914
-	Maniraptora	Gauthier 1986
-	Paraves	Sereno 1997
class	Aves	Linnaeus 1758
-	Pygostylia	Chiappe 2002
-	Ornithothoraces	Chiappe and Calvo 1994
-	Ornithuromorpha	Chiappe et al. 1999
subclass	Ornithurae	Haeckel 1866
subclass	Neornithes	Gadow 1893
-	Neognathae
-	Neoaves	Sibley et al. 1988
-	Terrestrornithes	Livezey and Zusi 2007
-	Dendrornithes
-	Raptores	Baird 1858
superorder	Falconimorphae
order	Strigiformes	Wagler 1830
family	Strigidae	Vigors 1825
genus	Mascarenotus	Mourer-Chauviré Bour Moutou & Ribes 1994

Scientific Name

Mascarenotus Mourer-Chauviré, Bour, Moutou & Ribes, 1994

Name Published In

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes 318 (12), 16 Juin:

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mascarenotus	genus	belongs to Strigidae	stated with evidence	Mourer-Chauviré et al., 1994

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Last Recorded Appearance

0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Strigidae)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Vision

well-developed (based on Strigiformes)

Diet

carnivore, insectivore (based on Strigidae)

Reproduction

oviparous, brooding (based on Strigiformes)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. Mourer-Chauviré, R. Bour, and F. Moutou, S. Ribes. 1994. Mascarenotus nov. gen. (Aves, Strigiformes), genre endémique éteint des Mascareignes et M. grucheti n. sp., espèce éteinte de La Réunion. Comptes Rendus de I'Academie des Sciences de Paris 318:1699-1706

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascarenotus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Mascarenotus grucheti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Gruchet's Mascarene Owl	4	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0.01 Ma Pleistocene
Mascarenotus murivorus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0.01 Ma Pleistocene
Mascarenotus sauzieri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0.01 Ma Pleistocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1994	Mascarenotus Mourer-Chauviré et al. p. 1699
1999	Mascarenotus Mourer-Chauviré et al. p. 32

References

Mourer-Chauviré C., Bour R., et al (1994) Mascarenotus nov. gen. (Aves, Strigiformes), genre endémique éteint des Mascareignes et M. grucheti n. sp., espèce éteinte de La Réunion, Comptes Rendus de I'Academie des Sciences de Paris 318, 1699-1706

Mourer-Chauviré C., Bour R., et al (1999) The avifauna of Réunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the time of the arrival of the first Europeans, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89, 1-38

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes 318 (12), 16 Juin: - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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