Rivero's barn owl (Tyto riveroi) is an extinct species of barn owl that was very large — bigger than any extant barn owl species, and possibly larger than any known owl alive today.[1] It is thought to have been nearly as large as (but probably not as tall as) another extinct gigantic owl, Ornimegalonyx.[2] Suárez and Olson demoted T. riveroi as a junior synonym of Tyto pollens in 2015.[3]
| Rivero's barn owl Temporal range: Pleistocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Strigiformes |
| Family: | Tytonidae |
| Genus: | Tyto |
| Species: | T. riveroi
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| Tyto riveroi Arredondo, 1972
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References edit
- ^ Arredondo, Oscar (December 1972). "Especie Nueva de Lechuza Gigante (Strigiformes: Tytonidae) del Pleistoceno Cubano" (PDF). Separata del Boletín de la Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales (in Spanish). 30 (124/125): 129–140.
- ^ Arredondo, Oscar. "The Great Predatory Birds of the Pleistocene of Cuba" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology: 169–187. Retrieved 13 July 2017. "Reprinted from: "Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore," Storrs L. Olson, editor, 21 May 1976"
- ^ Suárez, William; Olson, Storrs L. (2015-09-23). "Systematics and distribution of the giant fossil barn owls of the West Indies (Aves: Strigiformes: Tytonidae)". Zootaxa. 4020 (3): 533. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4020.3.7. ISSN 1175-5334.
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