Corvitalusoides
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Corvitalusoides Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †Corvitalusoides Boles, 2006 |
Species: | †C. grandiculus |
Binomial name | |
†Corvitalusoides grandiculus Boles, 2006 |
Corvitalusoides grandiculus is an extinct species of songbird, in a monotypic genus of uncertain familial affinities, from the Late Oligocene or Early Miocene of northern Australia. It was described from a distal tibiotarsal fragment found at Riversleigh, in the Boodjamulla National Park of north-western Queensland. The bone size indicates that the bird was among the largest of songbirds, within the size range of ravens and lyrebirds.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Boles, Walter E. (2006). "A new songbird (Aves: Passeriformes) from the mid-Cenozoic of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland". Alcheringa. 30 (Supplement 1): 31–37. Bibcode:2006Alch...30S..31B. doi:10.1080/03115510609506853. S2CID 83905663.