Formerly Placed Here
As noted above, the fossil record of scops owls gives an incomplete picture of their evolution at present. While older sources cite many species of supposed extinct Otus (or "Scops"), these are now placed in entirely different genera:
- "Otus" henrici was a barn owl of the genus Selenornis
- "Otus" providentiae was a burrowing owl, probably a paleosubspecies
- "Otus" wintershofensis may be close to extant genus Ninox and some material assigned to it belongs into Intutula
- "Scops" commersoni is a junior synonym of the recently-extinct Mauritius Owl, referring to pictures and descriptions which mention ear tufts; the subfossil material of this species had been erroneously assigned to tuftless owls
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