Vegaviidae

Vegaviidae
Temporal range: Uncertain Campanian and Paleogene records
Life restoration of Vegavis iaai
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: †Vegaviidae
Agnolín et al., 2017
Genera

Vegaviidae is a proposed extinct family of anseriform birds which lived during the Late Cretaceous and possibly the Paleocene. The monophyly of the family has been questioned by subsequent studies, with the only definitive member Vegavis known from the Maastrichtian stage of Antarctica, though some fossil genera from other continents have been assigned to this clade.

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