Xenopsitta

Xenopsitta is an extinct parrot genus known from a fossil tarsometatarsus in early Miocene deposits at Merkur, in western Bohemia of the Czech Republic, and described by Jiri Mlikovsky in 1998. The type species is Xenopsitta fejfari. The genus name derives from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos), meaning "strange", and ψιττακός (psittakós), meaning "parrot". The specific epithet honours Czech palaeontologist Oldrich Fejfar. It was described as a small parrot with a short and robust tarsometatarsus resembling the tarsometatarsi of large African parrots in the genera Psittacus, Poicephalus and Coracopsis.^[1]

Xenopsitta Temporal range: Early Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Psittaciformes
Family:	Psittacidae
Subfamily:	Psittacinae
Tribe:	Psittacini
Genus:	†Xenopsitta Mlikovsky, 1998
Species:	†X. fejfari
Binomial name
†Xenopsitta fejfari Mlikovsky, 1998