Serudaptus

Serudaptus
Temporal range:
Cast of the holotype of Serudaptus at the Natural History Museum of Vienna
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Eufalconimorphae
Family: Halcyornithidae
Genus: Serudaptus
Mayr, 2000
Type species
Serudaptus pohli
(Mayr, 2000)

Serudaptus is an extinct genus of halcyornithid bird from the Middle Eocene Messel pit in Hesse, Germany. The genus contains one species, Serudaptus pohli, and is known for long, raptorial claws on its zygodactyl feet.


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