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Kizylkumavis
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification

Class:

Aves

Subclass:

Enantiornithes

Superorder:

Euenantiornithes

Order:

Alexornithiformes (disputed)

Family:

Alexornithidae (disputed)

Genus:

Kizylkumavis

Kizylkumavis is an extinct genus of enantiornithine bird. It lived during the Late Cretaceous, about 75 Ma and is known from fossils found in the Bissekty Formation of the Kyzyl Kum, Uzbekistan.

It is sometimes allied with Alexornis and Sazavis, but this is very doubtful.

Mantell's Iguanodon restoration
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