Messelornithidae
Sign in to saveMesselornithidae is an extinct clade of gruiform birds, closely related to modern rails. The fossil record are from the Paleocene to the early Oligocene of Europe and North America.
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Messelornithidae is an extinct clade of gruiform birds, closely related to modern rails. The fossil record are from the Paleocene to the early Oligocene of Europe and North America.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Messelornithidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.