Dapingfangornis

Dapingfangornis was an enantiornithine bird. It lived during the Early Cretaceous and is known from fossils—including a complete skeleton—found in the Jiufotang Formation in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China. Small to medium-sized, it had a sternum with both long and short lateral processes, and a unique thorn-like process on its nares.[1]

Dapingfangornis
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Avialae
Clade: †Enantiornithes
Genus: †Dapingfangornis
Li et al., 2006
Species:
†D. sentisorhinus
Binomial name
†Dapingfangornis sentisorhinus
Li et al., 2006

References
  1. Li Li; Ye Duan; Dongyu Hu; Li Wang; Shaoli Cheng; Lianhai Hou (2006). "New Eoenantiornithid Bird from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Western Liaoning, China". Acta Geologica Sinica. 80 (1): 38–41. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2006.tb00792.x.


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