Lamarqueavis
| Lamarqueavis Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Avialae |
| Family: | †Cimolopterygidae |
| Genus: | †Lamarqueavis Agnolin, 2010 |
| Type species | |
| †Lamarqueavis australis Agnolin, 2010
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Lamarqueavis is an extinct genus of prehistoric birds from the Cimolopterygidae known from Late Cretaceous-aged rocks from Argentina, Canada, and the United States. The type species, L. australis, was named in 2010 and is based on the holotype MML 207, a partial right coracoid found in the Allen Formation, Argentina.[1] Two other species, L. minima, based on the holotype UCMP 53976, a right coracoid found in the Lance Formation, Wyoming,[2] and L. petra, based on the holotype AMNH 21911, a left coracoid also found in the Lance Formation, Wyoming,[3] were transferred over from Cimolopteryx to Lamarqueavis in 2010.[1] A third unnamed species is known from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Federico L. Agnolin (2010). "An avian coracoid from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina". Stvdia Geologica Salmanticensia. 46 (2): 99–119.
- ^ Brodkorb, P. (1963). Birds from the Upper Cretaceous of Wyoming. Proceedings of the XIII International Ornithological Congress 55-70
- ^ a b Hope, S. (2002). The Mesozoic radiation of Neornithes. Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. University of California Press, Berkeley 339-388
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