''Rhynchopsitta phillipsi'' is an extinct species of

thick-billed parrot The thick-billed parrot (''Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha'') is a medium-sized parrot endemic to Mexico that formerly ranged into the southwestern United States. Its position in parrot phylogeny is the subject of ongoing discussion; it is sometimes ...

. It was described in 1997 from

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 ...

cave deposits from

Nuevo León Nuevo León () is a state in the northeast region of Mexico. The state was named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, itself was named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León. With a ...

in northeastern Mexico. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

honours American ornithologist

Allan Robert Phillips Allan Robert Phillips (October 25, 1914 – January 26, 1996) was an American ornithologist. He mainly studied bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beak ...

References

Rhynchopsitta Birds described in 1997 Fossil taxa described in 1997 Pleistocene birds of North America {{parrot-stub