Cerestenia

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Cerestenia
Temporal range: Rupelian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Turnipacidae
Genus: Cerestenia
Species:
C. pulchrapenna
Binomial name
Cerestenia pulchrapenna
Mayr, 2000

Cerestenia is an extinct genus of shorebird that lived during the Rupelian stage of the Oligocene epoch.

Distribution

Cerestenia pulchrapenna is known from the site of Céreste in France. [1]

References

  1. Mayr, Gerald (2000). "Charadriiform birds from the early Oligocene of Céreste (France) and the Middle Eocene of Messel (Hessen, Germany)". Geobios . 33 (5): 625–636. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(00)80034-0 . Retrieved 27 February 2025 via Elsevier Science Direct.