''Eocypselus'' is an genus of prehistoric birds believed to be ancestral to modern
hummingbird
Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae. With about 361 species and 113 genera, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but the vast majority of the species are found in the tropics aro ...
s and
swifts.
[Mayr, G. (2010)]
Reappraisal of ''Eocypselus'' – a stem group representative of apodiform birds from the early Eocene of Northern Europe
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 90: 395-403.
Species
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Eocypselus rowei
''Eocypselus rowei'' is an extinct bird believed to be ancestral to modern hummingbirds and swifts. It was a small bird, less than in length, and probably had black feathers. The bird was first described in 2013 and lived approximately 50 mil ...
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Ksepka ''et al.'', 2013
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Eocypselus vincenti''
Harrison, 1984
References
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Apodiformes
Prehistoric bird genera