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Rapaxavis
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 120 Ma
Holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Avialae
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

  1. ^ 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)