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3 unusual facts about Rahonavis


Rahona

When they discovered that the name had already been used by Griveaud, they renamed the fossil Rahonavis.

Rahonavis

The discoverers of Rahonavis initially named it Rahona but changed the name after discovering that the name Rahona was already assigned to a genus of lymantriid moths.

Rahona ostromi Forster et al., 1998a
(preoccupied)


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Unenlagiinae

Among unenlagiines is one of the largest dromaeosaurids, Austroraptor (5.8 metres), as well as some of the smallest, Buitreraptor and Rahonavis.


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