†Cerestenia pulchrapenna Mayr 2000 (buttonquail)
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Aves - Charadriiformes - Turnicidae
Full reference: G. Mayr. 2000. Charadriiformbirds from the early Oligoceneof C6reste(France)and theMiddle Eoceneof Messel (Hessen,Germany). Geobios 33(5):625-636
Belongs to Cerestenia according to G. Mayr 2000
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: SMNK.PAL.3805, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Céreste (PNR Luberon collection), which is in a MP 23 lacustrine carbonate in the Campagne-Calavon Formation of France.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution: found only at Céreste (PNR Luberon collection)
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