Rapaxavis

Rapaxavis
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Subclass: Enantiornithes
Superorder: Euenantiornithes
Order: Longipterygiformes
Family: Longipterygidae[1]
Genus: Rapaxavis
Morschhauser et al., 2009
Species
  • R. pani Morschhauser et al., 2009 (type)

Rapaxavis a genus of enantiornithine bird. Fossils were recovered from the Jiufotang Formation at Liaoning, People's Republic of China.[2]

References

  1. ^ O'Connor, J.K.; Gao, K.-Q.; and Chiappe, L.M. (2010). "A new ornithuromorph (Aves: Ornithothoraces) bird from the Jehol Group indicative of higher-level diversity". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (2): 311–321. doi:10.1080/02724631003617498. http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/462280__920289337.pdf. 
  2. ^ 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.