| Messelastur Temporal range:
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| Skull of Messelastur gratulator | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Eufalconimorphae |
| Family: | †Messelasturidae |
| Genus: | †Messelastur Peters, 1994 |
| Type species | |
| †Messelastur gratulator (Peters, 1994)
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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]
- ^ Peters, D.S. (1994) Messelastur gratulator n. gen. n. spec., ein Greifvogel as der Grube Messel (Aves: Accipitridae). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 170:3-9
- ^ G. Mayr. 2011. Well-preserved new skeleton of the Middle Eocene Messelastur substantiates sister group relationship between Messelasturidae and Halcyornithidae (Aves, ?Pan-Psittaciformes). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 9(1):159-171