- The Enantiornithes, also
known as
enantiornithines or
enantiornitheans in literature, are a
group of
extinct avialans ("birds" in the
broad sense), the...
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being a true homology. The
earliest known members of the
group are the
enantiornitheans Protopteryx fengningensis,
Eopengornis martini, and Cruralispennia...
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wiped out in the Cretaceous–Paleogene
extinction event,
along with
enantiornitheans and all
other non-avian dinosaurs. Most of what is
known about this...
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Ornithurae (=Euornithes), the
lineage including modern birds but not
enantiornitheans. Hou, who
recognized the
species as a euornithean, also
placed it in...
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Mummified enantiornithean wing (of an
unknown genus) from
Cenomanian amber from Myanmar...
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analyses on
enantiornitheans have not
resolved the family. However, this may be due to such
analyses focusing on
early Cretaceous enantiornitheans (which are...
- been
recovered as a
basal enantiornithean, the
sister taxon of Pengornis, and in a
polytomy with many
other enantiornitheans.
Falcatakely is
known from...
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features that are
rarely found in euornitheans, but are more
typical of
enantiornitheans and more
basal groups.
These include a
robust furcula with a prominent...
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Ichthyornitheans became extinct at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary,
along with
enantiornitheans, all
other non-avian dinosaurs, and many
other animal and
plant groups...
- type species,
Bohaiornis guoi, and
Shenqiornis mengi.
Similar to most
enantiornitheans,
bohaiornithids possessed teeth rather than a beak as in
modern birds...
