Neogaeornis
| Neogaeornis Temporal range: Maastrichtian ~ | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Anseriformes |
| Family: | †Vegaviidae (?) |
| Genus: | †Neogaeornis Lambrecht 1929 |
| Species: | †N. wetzeli |
| Binomial name | |
| †Neogaeornis wetzeli Lambrecht 1929 | |
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Neogaeornis is a controversial prehistoric genus of diving bird. The single known species, Neogaeornis wetzeli, was described from fossils found in the Campanian to Maastrichtian Quiriquina Formation of Chile. It lived about 70-67 million years ago. It remains known from the single tarsometatarsus described in 1929 by Lambrecht, and today housed in the Paläontologisches Institut und Museum in Kiel, Germany.