Messelastur Temporal range:
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Skull of Messelastur gratulator | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Eufalconimorphae |
Family: | †Messelasturidae |
Genus: | †Messelastur Peters, 1994 |
Type species | |
†Messelastur gratulator (Peters, 1994)
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Messelastur is a genus of messelasturid bird. It is known from the Messel pit of Germany, which dates to the Eocene.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ Peters, D.S. (1994) Messelastur gratulator n. gen. n. spec., ein Greifvogel as der Grube Messel (Aves: Accipitridae). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 170:3-9
- ^ G. Mayr. 2011. Well-preserved new skeleton of the Middle Eocene Messelastur substantiates sister group relationship between Messelasturidae and Halcyornithidae (Aves, ?Pan-Psittaciformes). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 9(1):159-171