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Cimolopteryx
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Cimoliopterus.
Cimolopteryx (meaning "Cretaceous wing"[2]) is a prehistoric bird genus from the Late Cretaceous Period. It is currently thought to contain only a single species, Cimolopteryx rara. The only specimen confidently attributed to C. rara was found in the Lance Formation of Wyoming, dating to the end of the Maastrichtian age, which ended about 66 million years ago.[3] The dubious species "Cimolopteryx" maxima has been described from both the Lance Formation and the Hell Creek Formation of Montana.[4] The humeral end of a left coracoid from the Frenchman Formation of southern Saskatchewan has also been attributed to the genus.[5]
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Cimolopteryx | |
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Left coracoid of C. rara | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Avialae |
Family: | †Cimolopterygidae |
Genus: | †Cimolopteryx Marsh, 1892 |
Type species | |
†Cimolopteryx rara Marsh, 1892 | |
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