| Yangavis Temporal range: Early 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 |
| Family: | †Confuciusornithidae |
| Genus: | †Yangavis Wang & Zhou, 2018 |
| Type species | |
| †Yangavis confucii Wang & Zhou, 2018
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Yangavis is a basal pygostylian genus, belonging to the Confuciusornithidae, that in the Early Cretaceous lived in the area of present China. The type species is Yangavis confucii.[1]
- ^ Wang, M.; Zhou, Z. (2018). "A new confuciusornithid (Aves: Pygostylia) from the Early Cretaceous increases the morphological disparity of the Confuciusornithidae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 20: 1–14. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly045.