Canadaga

Taxobox
name = "Canadaga"
status = fossil
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
subclassis = Hesperornithes
ordo = Hesperornithiformes
familia = Hesperornithidae
familia_authority =
genus = "Canadaga"
genus_authority =
species = "C. arctica"
binomial = "Canadaga arctica"
binomial_authority =

"Canadaga" is a prehistoric flightless bird genus from the Late Cretaceous. The single known species is "Canadaga arctica". It lived in the shallow seas around what today is northern Canada, during the mid-Maastrichtian some 67 million years agoVerify source|date=November 2007

It was a member of the Hesperornithes, flightless toothed seabirds of the Cretaceous. Among these, it belonged to the Hesperornithidae just like "Hesperornis", the well-known namesake genus. [Mortimer (2004)]

"C. arctica" is the largest known member of the Hesperornithes, reaching a length of 1.5 meters (5 ft). It also represents the youngest member of the lineage. Unlike its relatives which are mainly known from subtropical or tropical waters, this species seems to have ranged in temperate or even subarctic areas.

Footnotes

References

* (2004): The Theropod Database: [http://home.comcast.net/~eoraptor/Phylogeny%20of%20Taxa.html Phylogeny of taxa] . Retrieved 2008-AUG-14.