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Camptodontus

Naam beteken: “bent tooth bird”1

Camptodontornis was a small, toothed bird that lived during the Early Cretaceous. It had strong jaws and curved teeth, which helped it catch and eat prey. This bird was an enantiornithine, a group of early birds that went extinct with the dinosaurs.2

Het geleef

121 tot 113 miljoen jaar gelede3

Vroeë Kryt

Topspoed

omtrent 27 km/h (17 mph)

Vlieënd, skatting

Wanneer het dit geleef?

Trias

Jura

Kryt

252 miljoen jaar gelede20114566, die asteroïde

Hoe vinnig was dit?

'n Mens wat loop omtrent 5 km/h (3 mph)

'n Kind op 'n fiets omtrent 12 km/h (7 mph)

Camptodontus omtrent 27 km/h (17 mph)

'n Galopperende perd omtrent 65 km/h (40 mph)

'n Jagluiperd omtrent 100 km/h (62 mph)

cool goed

Prettige feite

Camptodontornis was originally named Camptodontus, but that name was already used for a beetle, so scientists had to give it a new name in 2019.1

This bird had a Y-shaped furcula, which is the wishbone that helps birds fly.2

Its teeth were strongly curved backward, which helped it hold onto slippery prey.2

Camptodontornis belongs to the family Longipterygidae, a group of early birds with long snouts.2

The only known fossil of Camptodontornis is a nearly complete skeleton found in the Jiufotang Formation of China.3

It lived about 121 to 113 million years ago, during the Aptian age of the Early Cretaceous.3

KI-prent van Camptodontus — 'n KI-prent van hoe Camptodontus dalk gelyk het, deur 'n rekenaar gemaak uit wat wetenskaplikes weet. Dit is 'n raaiskoot: die regte dier het dalk anders gelyk, en niemand weet wat sy regte kleure was nie.

Vir dino-kenners

Wetenskaplike naam: Camptodontus
Benoem deur: Li et al. 20103
Groep: Vroeë voëls
Familie / klade: Longipterygidae3
Klassifikasie: Theropoda > Avialae3
Ouderdom van die rotse: 121 tot 113 miljoen jaar (Aptian)3
Fossielrekords: 1 in The Paleobiology Database3
Ontdekking: Camptodontornis was first described in 2010 by Li Li and colleagues based on a skeleton from Liaoning, China. It was originally called Camptodontus, but that name was already taken by a beetle, so in 2019 it was renamed Camptodontornis.1 2
Steeds omstrede: Scientists are still debating exactly how Camptodontornis is related to other enantiornithine birds.2

Waar die feite vandaan kom

Camptodontornis gen. nov., a replacement name for the bird genus Camptodontus Li, Gong, Zhang, Yang, and Hou, 2010, a junior homonym of Camptodontus Dejean, 1826 | Zootaxa (biotaxa.org)
A NEW ENANTIORNITHINE BIRD(AVES) FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS OF LIAONING,CHINA--《Acta Palaeontologica Sinica》2010年04期 (web.archive.org)
Camptodontus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.

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