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APSARAVIS
(ap-sah-a-viss)
Named By: Mark A. Norell & Julia A. Clarke in 2001
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 78 Ma
Location: Mongolia - Djadokhta Formation
Size: Unavailable
Diet: Uncertain
Fossil(s): Single specimen
Classification: | Chordata | Aves | Euornithes | Ambiortiformes |
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Apsaravis is a Mesozoic bird genus from the Late Cretaceous. The single known species, Apsaravis ukhaana, lived about 78 million years ago, in the Campanian age of the Cretaceous period. Its fossilized remains were found in the Camel's Humps sublocality of the Djadokhta Formation, at Ukhaa Tolgod in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. They were collected in the 1998 field season by the Mongolian Academy of Sciences/American Museum of Natural History Paleontological Expeditions. It was described by Norell and Clarke (2001).

Its habitat was presumably very arid open landscape much like it is today, perhaps hotter still and with more (but nonetheless intermittent) rain. Permanent freshwater would have been scarce.

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