| Cratonavis Temporal range: Early Cretaceous (Aptian), ~
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| Life restoration of Cratonavis (left) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Avialae |
| Family: | †Jinguofortisidae |
| Genus: | †Cratonavis Li et al., 2023 |
| Species: | †C. zhui
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| Binomial name | |
| †Cratonavis zhui Li et al., 2023
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Cratonavis (meaning "Craton bird") is an extinct genus of pygostylian avialian from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning Province, China. The genus contains a single species, C. zhui, known from a complete skeleton.[1]