| Soroavisaurus Temporal range: Maastrichtian |
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Fossil
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Subclass: | Enantiornithes |
| Superorder: | Euenantiornithes |
| Order: | Enantiornithiformes |
| Family: | Avisauridae |
| Genus: | Soroavisaurus |
| Species: | S. australis |
| Binomial name | |
| Soroavisaurus australis |
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Soroavisaurus australis was an enantiornithine bird related to Avisaurus. It lived during the Late Cretaceous of Argentina.
S. australis is known from fossils collected from the Lecho Formation (Maastrichtian age) of Estancia El Brete, in the southern tip of the province of Salta, Argentina. The specimens are in the collection of the Fundacion-Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucaman. They are cataloged as PVL-4690, a 46.9 mm — long left tarsometatarsus, and PVL-4048, which includes another left tarsometatarsus, 51.5mm long and associated with the whole hallux, or digit I, and four intermediate phalanges. PVL-4048 was previously described as "Avisaurus sp." (see Avisaurus).
S. australis is presently the only known species of the genus Soroavisaurus.[1]
S. australis is in the family Avisauridae, along with Avisaurus and Neuquenornis.