Canadaga

Canadaga
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 83.6–67 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
Binomial name
Canadaga arctica
Hou, 1999

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]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Holtz2010 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference DevonIsland2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Mortimer, M. (2004). "The Theropod Database: Phylogeny of taxa". Archived from the original on May 16, 2013.