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779:"Comprehensive molecular phylogeny of barn owls and relatives (Family: Tytonidae), and their six major Pleistocene radiations"
596:(Late Eocene/Early Oligocene) from Quercy, France. Placement in this family is tentative, it may instead belong to the family
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