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The asphalt miniature owl (''Asphaltoglaux cecileae'') is an extinct species of true owl which existed in what is now California, U.S.A. during the
Late Pleistocene The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as Upper Pleistocene from a Stratigraphy, stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division of ...
epoch. The species is known from the
La Brea Tar Pits La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, or pitch; ''brea'' in Spanish) has seeped up from the gro ...
. Its
osteology Osteology () is the scientific study of bones, practised by osteologists. A subdiscipline of anatomy, anthropology, and paleontology, osteology is the detailed study of the structure of bones, skeletal elements, teeth, microbone morphology, funct ...
suggests a close relation to the owls of the genus ''
Aegolius ''Aegolius'' is a genus of small true owls. The genus name is from Latin, ''aegolius'', is a type of screech owl that was thought to be a bird of ill omen. Taxonomy The genus ''Aegolius'' was introduced in 1829 by the German naturalist Johann J ...
''.


See also

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Glaucidium kurochkini Kurochkin's pygmy owl (''Glaucidium kurochkini'') is an extinct species of pygmy owl that existed in what is now California, U.S.A. during the Late Pleistocene Epoch. Discovery and naming The holotype of ''Glaucidium kurochkini'' is LACM RLB K9 ...
'', a pygmy owl species also known from the La Brea Tar Pits *''
Oraristrix The La Brea owl (''Oraristix brea'') is an extinct owl reported from the upper Pleistocene asphalt deposits of the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. It was first described in 1933 by Hildegarde Howard as ''Strix brea'', but this extinc ...
'', another, much larger owl from the La Brea Tar Pits


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2881753 Pleistocene birds of North America Strigidae Birds described in 2012 Late Quaternary prehistoric birds