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]
| Cratoavis Temporal range: Aptian ~ | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Avialae |
| Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
| Clade: | †Euenantiornithes |
| Genus: | †Cratoavis Carvalho et al., 2015 |
| Species: | †C. cearensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Cratoavis cearensis Carvalho et al., 2015 | |
The genus was named after the Crato Formation, in which the specimen was found.[1]
Phylogeny
Cratoavis in the cladogram from Wang et al., 2022:[2]
| Enantiornithes |
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Key to letters:
b = Boluochia
c = Cathayornis
e = Enantiophoenix
f = Houornis
h = Longipteryx
i = Parabohaiornis
j = Pterygornis
l = Vorona
m = Yuanjiawaornis
n = Yungavolucris