Malagasy lapwing Temporal range: Late Holocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Charadriiformes |
Family: | Charadriidae |
Genus: | Vanellus |
Species: | †V. madagascariensis
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Binomial name | |
†Vanellus madagascariensis Goodman, 1997[1]
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The Malagasy lapwing (Vanellus madagascariensis) is an extinct type of wader/shorebird, in the lapwing family.
It is known only from two subfossil humeri, found in separate locales in south-western Madagascar, which were described by Steven M. Goodman.
Radiocarbon dating has indicated that the species became extinct in the 14th century, during a period of climatic aridification.[2]