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Avisaurus (meaning "bird lizard") is an extinct genus in a group of Cretaceous birds called Enantiornithes. Two species are known; the type species A. archibaldi, and A. gloriae. Both are known only from single fossilized bones of the foot - the tarsometatarsus. Both species of Avisaurus are known from the humid low-lying swamps, lakes, and river basins of the western shore of the Western Interior Seaway, and from the much more arid uplands between that area and the Cordilleran Overthrust Belt which eventually formed the Rocky Mountains.

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  • Avisaurus (meaning "bird lizard") is an extinct genus in a group of Cretaceous birds called Enantiornithes. Two species are known; the type species A. archibaldi, and A. gloriae. Both are known only from single fossilized bones of the foot - the tarsometatarsus. Both species of Avisaurus are known from the humid low-lying swamps, lakes, and river basins of the western shore of the Western Interior Seaway, and from the much more arid uplands between that area and the Cordilleran Overthrust Belt which eventually formed the Rocky Mountains.
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  • Avisaurus
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  • *A. archibaldi *A. gloriae
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  • (Brett-Surman & Paul, 1985)
  • Avisaurus
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  • Avisaurus (meaning "bird lizard") is an extinct genus in a group of Cretaceous birds called Enantiornithes. Two species are known; the type species A. archibaldi, and A. gloriae. Both are known only from single fossilized bones of the foot - the tarsometatarsus. Both species of Avisaurus are known from the humid low-lying swamps, lakes, and river basins of the western shore of the Western Interior Seaway, and from the much more arid uplands between that area and the Cordilleran Overthrust Belt which eventually formed the Rocky Mountains. This genus belongs to the enantiornithine family Avisauridae, which also contains similar animals from South America such as Soroavisaurus and Neuquenornis In the Late Cretaceous the Americas were still separated by a branch of the Tethys Ocean.
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