| Canadaga Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Avialae |
| Clade: | †Hesperornithes |
| Family: | †Hesperornithidae |
| Genus: | †Canadaga Hou, 1999 |
| Species: | †C. arctica
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| †Canadaga arctica Hou, 1999
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Canadaga (meaning "Canadian bird"[1]) is a flightless bird genus from the Late Cretaceous. The single known species is Canadaga arctica. It lived in the shallow seas around what today is Bylot and Devon Islands in Nunavut, Canada. Its fossils were found in rocks dated to the Campanian[2] to mid-Maastrichtian age, about 67 million years ago.[3]
It was a member of the Hesperornithes, flightless toothed seabirds of the Cretaceous. Among these, it belonged to the Hesperornithidae, along with Hesperornis, the well-known namesake genus.[4]
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DevonIsland2011was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Hou L.-H. (1999). "New hesperornithid (Aves) from the Canadian Arctic" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 37 (7): 228–233. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-08.
- ^ Mortimer, M. (2004). "The Theropod Database: Phylogeny of taxa". Archived from the original on May 16, 2013.