| Holbotia Temporal range: Early Cretaceous | |
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| Holbotia by Scott Reid | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Genus: | †Holbotia Zelenkov & Averianov, 2015 |
| Species: | †H. ponomarenkoi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Holbotia ponomarenkoi Zelenkov & Averianov, 2015 | |
Holbotia ("Of Holbot") is an extinct Advanced Short-Tailed Avialian from early Cretaceous Mongolia. The type species is H. ponomarenkoi.
Description[]
The holotype of Holbotia consists of jaws, a cervical vertebra, a furcula, and hind limb bones. Other bones were discovered, including an incomplete femur, fragments of the wing, the distal part of the right metatarsus, a tibia in two pieces, a hallux, proximal and central fragments of the right tarsometatarsus, and most of the pedal digit phalanges. Holbotia would likely have a very flexible neck in life, as well as robust hind limbs. Holbotia is also around the size of a common starling.
Paleoecology[]
The ecology of Holbotia in life is highly unknown, due to not much information being uncovered about the genus.