Cerestenia
| Cerestenia Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | â Turnipacidae |
| Genus: | â Cerestenia |
| Species: | â C. pulchrapenna |
| Binomial name | |
| â Cerestenia pulchrapenna Mayr, 2000 | |
Cerestenia is an extinct genus of shorebird that lived during the Rupelian stage of the Oligocene epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Cerestenia pulchrapenna is known from the site of CÃĐreste in France.[1]
References
[edit]- â Mayr, Gerald (2000). "Charadriiform birds from the early Oligocene of CÃĐreste (France) and the Middle Eocene of Messel (Hessen, Germany)". Geobios. 33 (5): 625â636. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(00)80034-0. Retrieved 27 February 2025 â via Elsevier Science Direct.
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