Corvitalusoides Temporal range:
Late Oligocene to
Early Miocene,
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Genus: | Corvitalusoides
Boles, 2006
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Species: | C. grandiculus
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Corvitalusoides grandiculus Boles, 2006
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Corvitalusoides grandiculus is an extinct species of songbird, in a monotypic genus of uncertain familial affinities, from the Late Oligocene or Early Miocene of northern Australia. It was described from a distal tibiotarsal fragment found at Riversleigh, in the Boodjamulla National Park of north-western Queensland. The bone size indicates that the bird was among the largest of songbirds, within the size range of ravens and lyrebirds. [1]