Rapaxavis
| Rapaxavis Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 120 Ma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
| Family: | †Longipterygidae |
| Genus: | †Rapaxavis Morschhauser et al., 2009 |
| Species: | † R. pani |
| Binomial name | |
| Rapaxavis pani Morschhauser et al., 2009 | |
Rapaxavis a genus of enantiornithine bird. Fossils were recovered from the Jiufotang Formation at Liaoning, People's Republic of China.[1]
References
- ↑ Morschhauser,E. M., Varricchio, D.J., Gao, C., Liu, J., Wang, Z., Cheng, X. and Meng, Q. (2009). "Anatomy of the Early Cretaceous bird Rapaxavis pani, a new species from Liaoning Province, China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 (2): 545–554. doi:10.1671/039.029.0210.
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