Rahonavis

Rahonavis is a genus of bird-like theropods from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian, about 70 mya) of what is now northwestern Madagascar. It is known from a partial skeleton (UA 8656) found by Catherine Forster and colleagues in Maevarano Formation rocks at a quarry near Berivotra, Mahajanga Province.[1] Rahonavis was a small predator, at about 70 centimetres (2.3 ft) long,[2] with the typical Velociraptor-like raised sickle claw on the second toe.
The name Rahonavis means, approximately, "cloud menace bird", from Malagasy rahona (RA-hoo-na, "cloud" or "menace") + Latin avis"bird". The specific name, R. ostromi, was coined in honor of John Ostrom.
Category:Dinosaurs
Category:Animals
Category:Creatures
Category:Prehistoric theropods
Category:Late Cretaceous animals of Africa
Category:Dinosaurs of india and madagascar
Category:Unenlagiines
Category:Feathered dinosaurs
Category:Maevarano fauna
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1998
Category:Taxa named by Catherine Forster
Category:Taxa named by Scott D. Sampson
Category:Taxa named by Luis M. Chiappe
Category:Maastrichtian genus first appearances
Category:Maastrichtian life
Category:Maastrichtian genus extinctions