| Limenavis Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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| Reconstruction of Limenavis by José Carlos Cortés | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Genus: | †Limenavis Clarke & Chiappe, 2001 |
| Type species | |
| †Limenavis patagonica Clarke & Chiappe, 2001 | |
Limenavis (“Bird of the Threshold”) is an extinct genus of Advanced Short-Tailed Avialian from late Cretaceous Argentina. The type and only species is L. patagonica.
Description[]
Not much is know about Limenavis due to not much material, but the material we do have are wing bones, a fossa, metacarpals, a humerus, and an ulna.
It is unknown where Limenavis fits exactly in the avian family tree, since it is likely either a member of Carinatae, or an extremely basal paleognath, which contains modern day ratites.
Paleoecology[]
Since there aren’t many fossils of Limenavis, there is a lot of speculation about its behavior and ecology. It may have behaved similarly to the related genus, Ichthyornis.
