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Mirarce Temporal range: Campanian,
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Reconstruction by Scott Hartman, showing known material in white | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Avialae |
Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
Family: | †Avisauridae |
Genus: | †Mirarce Atterholt et al., 2018 |
Species: | †M. eatoni
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Binomial name | |
†Mirarce eatoni Atterholt et al., 2018
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Mirarce (meaning "wonderful winged messenger") is a genus of enantornithe bird from the Late Cretaceous of Utah. It contains a single species, M. eatoni.[1] It was similar in size to modern turkeys.