Castignovolucris
{{Short description|Extinct genus of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| genus = Castignovolucris
| parent_authority = Buffetaut et al., 2023
| species = sebei
| authority = Buffetaut et al., 2023
| fossil_range = Late Cretaceous,
~{{fossilrange|74|72}}
| image = Cruzy - Castignovolucris sebei 02.jpg
| image_caption = Holotype coracoid of C. sebei at the Musée de Cruzy
}}
Castignovolucris (meaning "Castigno valley bird") is an extinct genus of enantornithe bird from the Late Cretaceous "continental red clays" of the Argiles et Grès à Reptiles Formation of France. It contains a single species, C. sebei, which was named and described in 2023.{{Cite journal |last1=Buffetaut |first1=E. |last2=Angst |first2=D. |last3=Tong |first3=H. |year=2023 |title=A new enantiornithine bird from Upper Cretaceous non-marine deposits at Villespassans (Hérault, southern France) |journal=Annales de Paléontologie |volume=109 |issue=1 |at=102585 |doi=10.1016/j.annpal.2022.102585|bibcode=2023AnPal.10902585B |s2cid=257863645 |doi-access=free }}
Discovery and naming
The holotype, MC-VCZ2-6, a right coracoid, was discovered sometime around the 1990s near Villespassans by Stéphane Sèbe and was donated to the Musée de Cruzy.
Castignovolucris sebei was named and described by Buffetaut et al. (2023).
Description
Paleobiology
Castignovolucris would have been found on the Ibero-Armorican island in what is today Occitania, France.{{Cite journal |last1=Csiki-Sava |first1=Zoltan |last2=Buffetaut |first2=Eric |last3=Ősi |first3=Attila |last4=Pereda-Suberbiola |first4=Xabier |last5=Brusatte |first5=Stephen L. |date=2015-01-08 |title=Island life in the Cretaceous - faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European archipelago |url=http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4474 |journal=ZooKeys |issue=469 |pages=1–161 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.469.8439 |pmid=25610343 |pmc=4296572 |bibcode=2015ZooK..469....1C |issn=1313-2970 |doi-access=free }}