Cretaaviculus
| Cretaaviculus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Avialae |
| Genus: | †Cretaaviculus Bazhanov, 1969 |
| Species: | †C. sarysuensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Cretaaviculus sarysuensis Bazhanov, 1969
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Cretaaviculus is an extinct genus of birds from the Upper Cretaceous Bostobe Formation of Kazakhstan. The type species, C. sarysuensis, is known only from an isolated, asymmetrical contour feather.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Nessov, 1992. Mesozoic and Paleogene birds of the USSR and their paleoenvironments. in Campbell (ed). Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Pierce Brodkorb. 465-478.
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