Cratoavis Explained

Cratoavis is a genus of enantiornithines. The type and only currently described species is C. cearensis, from the Early Cretaceous of Araripe Basin, Ceará, Brazil. The fossil, an articulated skeleton with feathers attached to the wings and surrounding the body, extends considerably the temporal record of the group at South America.^[1]

The genus was named after the Crato Formation, in which the specimen was found.

Phylogeny

Cratoavis in the cladogram from Wang et al., 2022:^[2]

Key to letters:

b = Boluochia
c = Cathayornis
e = Enantiophoenix
f = Houornis
h = Longipteryx
i = Parabohaiornis
j = Pterygornis
l = Vorona
m = Yuanjiawaornis
n = Yungavolucris

References

O cratoavis tinha o tamanho de um beija flor

Notes and References

1. de Souza Carvalho . I. . Novas . F. E. . Agnolín . F. L. . Isasi . M. P. . Freitas . F. I. . Andrade . J. A. . A new genus and species of enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil . Brazilian Journal of Geology . 2015 . 45 . 2 . 161–171 . 10.1590/23174889201500020001. free .
2. Wang . Xuri . Cau . Andrea . Luo . Xiaoling . Kundrát . Martin . Wu . Wensheng . Ju . Shubin . Guo . Zhen . Liu . Yichuan . Ji . Qiang . 2022-02-11 . A new bohaiornithid-like bird from the Lower Cretaceous of China fills a gap in enantiornithine disparity . Journal of Paleontology . 96 . 4 . en . 961–976 . 10.1017/jpa.2022.12 . 247432530 . 0022-3360. free . 2022JPal...96..961W .