Castignovolucris Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Avialae |
Clade: | † Enantiornithes |
Genus: | †
Castignovolucris Buffetaut et al., 2023 |
Species: | †C. sebei
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Binomial name | |
†Castignovolucris sebei Buffetaut et al., 2023
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Castignovolucris (meaning "Castigno valley bird") is an extinct genus of enantornithe bird from the Late Cretaceous "continental red clays" of the Argiles et Grès à Reptiles Formation of France. It contains a single species, C. sebei, which was named and described in 2023. [1]
The holotype, MC-VCZ2-6, a right coracoid, was discovered near Villespassans by Stéphane Sèbe and was donated to the Musée de Cruzy.
Castignovolucris sebei was named and described by Buffetaut et al. (2023). [1]
Castignovolucris was estimated to have a wingspan of around 127–185 cm (50–73 in) and may have been 75 to 110 cm (30 to 43 in) long when fully grown, [1] making it one of the largest known enantiornitheans to date.
Castignovolucris would have been found on the Ibero-Armorican island in what is today Occitania, France. [2]