Kizylkumavis Temporal range: Late Cretaceous |
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Conservation status | |
Fossil
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Subclass: | Enantiornithes |
Superorder: | Euenantiornithes |
Order: | Alexornithiformes (disputed) |
Family: | Alexornithidae (disputed) |
Genus: | Kizylkumavis |
Kizylkumavis was an enantiornithine bird. It lived during the Late Cretaceous about 75 mya[1] and is known from fossils found in the Bissekty Formation of the Kyzyl Kum, Uzbekistan.
It is sometimes allied with Alexornis and Sazavis, but this is very doubtful.