Collocalia buday is an extinct species of large swiftlet from the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene of Australia. It was described in 2001 by Walter Boles from fossil material found at Riversleigh, in the Boodjamulla National Park of north-western Queensland.[1]

Collocalia buday
Temporal range: Late Oligocene to Early Miocene, 28–16 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Apodidae
Genus: Collocalia
Species:
C. buday
Binomial name
Collocalia buday
Boles, 2001

References edit

  1. ^ Boles, W. E. (2001). "A swiftlet (Apodidae: Collocaliini) from the Oligo-Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland". Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. 25: 45–52.