Protoazin is an extinct genus of bird related to the hoatzin[1] from late Eocene (about 36 mya) deposits of France.
| Protoazin Temporal range: Late Eocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Opisthocomiformes |
| Family: | Opisthocomidae |
| Genus: | †Protoazin Mayr & De Pietri 2014 |
| Species: | †P. parisiensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Protoazin parisiensis Mayr & De Pietri, 2014
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References
edit- ^ Gerald Mayr and Vanesa L. De Pietri (2014). "Earliest and first Northern Hemispheric hoatzin fossils substantiate Old World origin of a "Neotropic endemic"". Naturwissenschaften. 101 (2): 143–148. Bibcode:2014NW....101..143M. doi:10.1007/s00114-014-1144-8. PMID 24441712. S2CID 14060583.
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