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"It had teeth and lacked a true beak, making their face similar to those of Dromaeosaurids" - has the cranial skeleton of Avisaurus actually been found, or is this just an assumption?
Dysmorodrepanis 19:14, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
The very first sentence states that Avisaurus is,"a genus in a group of Cretaceous terrestrial flightless birds called Enantiornithes..."
This sentence is very confusing to me in several ways. First of all, I as a reader question whether Avisaurus itself is flightless, or is the broad Enantiornithe family overall considered flightless? But more importantly, the concept of both Avisaurus and Enantiornithes in general being flightless seems to contradict other facts in this and related articles. I've read from several sources, including this discussion page, that Avisaurus is viewed as being a bird-of-prey type organism, which seems rather farfetched if Avisaurus is indeed flightless. Plus, classifying the entire branch of Enantiornithe birds as flightless is equally silly, for that means that species such as Enantiornis and Eoalulavis(which was one of the oldest birds to have an alula, a special feather on the thumb that helps a bird steer in flight) are also flightless. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.3.129.181 ( talk) 02:36, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
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Since "A. gloriae", now Gettyia was split off from Avisaurus, how many Avisaurus specimens remain? Is the genus represented only by a single bone, an isolated tarsometatarsus? If so this could be worth mentioning in the lead. Rauisuchian ( talk) 11:54, 30 January 2020 (UTC)