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Rahonavis
Ate: MeatRaptorsLate Cretaceous
Rahonavis belongs to the group: Raptors. Its fossils come from rocks about 72 to 66 million years old.1
When did it live?
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid
For dino experts
- Scientific name
- Rahonavis
- Named by
- Forster et al. 19981
- Group
- Raptors
- Family / clade
- Dromaeosauridae1
- Classification
- Theropoda > Dromaeosauridae1
- Age of the rocks
- 72 to 66 million years (Maastrichtian)1
- Rock formations
- Maevarano1
- Countries
- Madagascar1
- Fossil records
- 2 in the Paleobiology Database1
- Also known as
- Rahona (older names now counted as the same animal)1
Where the facts come from
- Rahonavis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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