Canadaga
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Canadaga (meaning "Canadian bird"[1]) is a flightless bird genus from the Late Cretaceous. The single known species is Canadaga arctica. It lived in the shallow seas around what today is Bylot and Devon Islands in Nunavut, Canada. Its fossils were found in rocks dated to the Campanian[2] to mid-Maastrichtian age, about 67 million years ago.[3]
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Canadaga | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Avialae |
Clade: | †Hesperornithes |
Family: | †Hesperornithidae |
Genus: | †Canadaga Hou, 1999 |
Species: | †C. arctica |
Binomial name | |
†Canadaga arctica Hou, 1999 | |
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It was a member of the Hesperornithes, flightless toothed seabirds of the Cretaceous. Among these, it belonged to the Hesperornithidae, along with Hesperornis, the well-known namesake genus.[4]