- 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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Avisaurus (meaning "bird lizard") is a
genus of
enantiornithine avialan from the Late
Cretaceous of
North America.
Avisaurus archibaldi was discovered...
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Avisauridae is a
family of
extinct enantiornithine dinosaurs from the
Cretaceous period,
distinguished by
several features of
their ankle bones. Depending...
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paleontologist Howard Hutchison discovered fossilized remains of an
enantiornithine bird. For a long time they have not been described; they were sometimes...
- Linqi; Peng, Cuo; Zhang, Xiaoqin; You,
Hailu (2025-01-17). "A new
enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the
Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation...
- rod-shaped pygostyles. The
earliest known member of the
group is the
enantiornithine species Protopteryx fengningensis, from the
Sichakou Member of the...
- by the
extinction of
Mesozoic dinosaur groups such as the
arboreal enantiornithines,
aquatic hesperornithines, and even the
larger terrestrial theropods...
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after birth. It has been
speculated that
superprecociality prevented enantiornithines from
acquiring specialized toe
anatomy seen in
modern altricial birds...
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Piscivorenantiornis is a
genus of
enantiornithine bird from the
Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning, China. It is
known from a
single species, P. insusitatus...
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Reconstruction of
Iberomesornis romerali, a
toothed enantiornithine...
