Gorgonavis
| Gorgonavis Temporal range: Early Cretaceous (Barremian),
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Avialae |
| Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
| Family: | †Longipterygidae (?) |
| Genus: | †Gorgonavis Nebreda et al., 2026 |
| Species: | †G. alcyone
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| Binomial name | |
| †Gorgonavis alcyone Nebreda et al., 2026
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Gorgonavis (lit. 'Gorgon bird') is an extinct genus of enantiornithean bird known from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian age) Calizas de La Huérguina Formation of Spain. The genus contains a single species, Gorgonavis alcyone, known from a partial skull. This specimen is the first instance of non-juvenile cranial bones of an avialan found in the Early Cretaceous of Europe. Gorgonavis likely belongs to the family Longipterygidae, otherwise definitively known only from China.