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Avisauridae

Wikipedia Abstract

The Avisauridae are a family of extinct Enantiornithine birds known from Cretaceous North and South America. They are represented by ten genera. Avisauridae was erected by Brett-Surman and Paul in 1985. They included in this family a few fossils that they believed belonged to small non-avian dinosaurs. Cladogram based on Cau and Arduini (2008):
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Genus

Avisaurus (1)
Bauxitornis (1)
Enantiophoenix (1)
Gettyia (1)
Halimornis (1)
Intiornis (1)
Mirarce (1)
Neuquenornis (1)
Soroavisaurus (1)

(...) = Species count

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0