Messelastur
Extinct genus of birds
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Messelastur is a genus of messelasturid bird. It is known from the Messel pit of Germany, which dates to the Eocene.[1][2]
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| Messelastur Temporal range: | |
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| Skull of Messelastur gratulator | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Eufalconimorphae |
| Family: | †Messelasturidae |
| Genus: | †Messelastur Peters, 1994 |
| Type species | |
| †Messelastur gratulator (Peters, 1994) | |
