Eoalulavis

Eoalulavis; Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Clade:	Avialae
Clade:	†Enantiornithes
Genus:	†Eoalulavis; Sanz et al., 1996
Species:	†E. hoyasi
Binomial name
	†Eoalulavis hoyasi; Sanz et al., 1996

Eoalulavis (from the Ancient Greek: Éōs, "dawn"; alula, "bastard wing"; avis, "bird") is a monotypic genus of enantiornithean bird that lived during the Barremian, in the Lower Cretaceous around 125 million years ago. The only known species is Eoalulavis hoyasi.^[1]^[2]

^ Sanz, José L.; Chiappe, Luis M.; Pérez-Moreno, Bernardino P.; Buscalioni, Ángela D.; Moratalla, José J.; Ortega, Francisco & Poyato-Ariza, Francisco J. (1996): An Early Cretaceous bird from Spain and its implications for the evolution of avian flight. Nature 382(6590): 442-445. doi:10.1038/382442a0 (HTML abstract)
^ Sanz, J., Pérez-Moreno, B., Chiappe, L., Buscalioni, A., Chiappe, L. & Witmer, L. (2002): "The birds from the lower Cretaceous of las hoyas (Province of Cuenca, Spain)", Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of the Dinosaurs.University of California Press, Berkeley, , pp. 209-229.