Trias greenfinch

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fossilized skull of a Trias greenfinch

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Trias greenfinch (plural Trias greenfinches)

  1. Chloris triasi, an extinct species of finch closely related to the European greenfinch (Chloris chloris), known only from fossil remains in La Palma in the Canary Islands.
    • 2018 May 15, John Bowler, Wildlife of Madeira and the Canary Islands: A Photographic Field Guide to Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Butterflies and Dragonflies, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 18:
      La Palma had its own endemic species of greenfinch, the Trias Greenfinch, which also had short wings but a much larger head and bill than the European Greenfinch, and presumably also succumbed with the arrival of humans on its island.

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