''Dynamopterus velox'' is a prehistoric

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

, known from a single large right humerus recovered in France. The humerus shares anatomical features with living

cuckoo Cuckoos are birds in the Cuculidae family, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes . The cuckoo family includes the common or European cuckoo, roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. The coucals and anis are sometimes separ ...

s (though it is much larger). It has also been classified in the suborder Cariamae in the Gruiformes.

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Oligocene birds Cenozoic birds of Europe Paleogene France Fossils of France Quercy Phosphorites Formation {{Paleo-bird-stub