Aquatilavipes Currie 1981 (bird)

Aves - Avipedidae

Full reference: P. J. Currie. 1981. Bird footprints from the Gething Formation (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) of northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1(3-4):257-264

Parent taxon: Avipedidae according to L. G. Buckley et al. 2016

See also Azuma et al. 2002, Currie 1981, Fujita 2008, Imai et al. 2018, McCrea et al. 2015, McCrea and Sarjeant 2001 and Zhen et al. 1994

Sister taxa: Avipeda, Fuscinapeda

Subtaxa: Aquatilavipes izumiensis Aquatilavipes swiboldae

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1 collection), Canada (2: Alberta, British Columbia), China (1), Japan (2), South Korea (1), United States (4: Alaska, Utah)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of China (1)

Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence

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