''Eremophila prealpestris'' is an
extinct
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species
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of
lark
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in the genus ''
Eremophila'' that lived in
Bulgaria
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during the
Neogene
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period
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.
References
Prehistoric birds
Fossil taxa described in 2012
prealpestris
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