Pavonini
Tribe of birds
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Evolution
The earliest named record of the tribe is Eopavo hezhengensis from the Late Miocene of Linxia Basin, Gansu, Northwestern China. It lived in a high-elevation savanna habitat, unlike the humid forests preferred by its extant relatives. Eopavo, along with older unnamed peafowl fossils from the Himalayan area (13.6 Ma), indicates that the peafowl dispersal likely occurred from Asia (the Tibetan Plateau) to other continents between the Late Miocene and the Pliocene.
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