Rapaxavis

Rapaxavis; Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Subclass:	Enantiornithes
Superorder:	Euenantiornithes
Order:	Longipterygiformes
Family:	Longipterygidae
Genus:	Rapaxavis; Morschhauser et al., 2009
Species
	R. pani Morschhauser et al., 2009 (type);

Rapaxavis a genus of enantiornithine bird. Fossils were recovered from the Jiufotang Formation at Liaoning, People's Republic of China.^[2]

References

^ O'Connor, J.K. (2010). "A new ornithuromorph (Aves: Ornithothoraces) bird from the Jehol Group indicative of higher-level diversity". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (2): 311–321. doi:10.1080/02724631003617498. {{cite journal}}: External link in |title= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
^ 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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