Dobrosturnus

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Dobrosturnus
Temporal range: Middle Miocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sturnidae
Genus: Dobrosturnus
Species:
D. kardamensis
Binomial name
Dobrosturnus kardamensis
Boev, 2020

Dobrosturnus is an extinct genus of starling that lived during the Middle Miocene subepoch.

Distribution

Dobrosturnus kardamensis fossils are known from Bulgaria. [1]

References

  1. Boev, Zlatozar (2020). "A New Middle Miocene Starling (Sturnidae Rafinesque, 1815) from Kardam (NE Bulgaria)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum - Plovdiv. 5: 33–41.