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The asphalt miniature owl (''Asphaltoglaux cecileae'') is an extinct species of
true owl The true owls or typical owls (family Strigidae) are one of the two generally accepted families of owls, the other being the barn owls (Tytonidae). This large family comprises 230 living or recently extinct species in 24 genera. The typical ow ...
which existed in what is now
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, U.S.A. during the
Late Pleistocene The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division of the Pleistocene Epoch within ...
epoch. The species is known from the La Brea Tar Pits. Its
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suggests a close relation to the owls of the genus '' Aegolius''.


See also

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Glaucidium kurochkini Kurochkin's pygmy owl (''Glaucidium kurochkini'') is an extinct species of pygmy owl that existed in what is now California, U.S.A. during the Late Pleistocene Epoch. Discovery and naming The holotype of ''Glaucidium kurochkini'' is LACM RLB K ...
'', a pygmy owl species also known from the La Brea Tar Pits *''
Oraristrix The La Brea owl (''Oraristix brea'') is an extinct owl reported from the upper Pleistocene asphalt deposits of the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. It was first described in 1933 by Hildegarde Howard as ''Strix brea'', but this extin ...
'', another, much larger owl from the La Brea Tar Pits


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2881753 Pleistocene birds of North America Strigidae Birds described in 2012 Late Quaternary prehistoric birds