Dinokaart nr. 1688 van 2 027

Songlingornis

Naam beteken: “Songling bird, named after a place in China”1

Songlingornis was an ancient bird that lived in China during the Early Cretaceous, about 121 to 113 million years ago. It had a slender, long beak with many teeth, and it walked on the ground looking for food like a small carnivore.1 2

Het geleef

121 tot 113 miljoen jaar gelede3

Vroeë Kryt

Fossiele gevind in

Liaoning Province, China (near Boluochi, Chaoyang County)1 2

Lengte

0,1 tot 1 m (0,3 tot 3,3 ft)1

Topspoed

omtrent 27 km/h (17 mph)

Vlieënd, skatting

Wanneer het dit geleef?

Trias

Jura

Kryt

252 miljoen jaar gelede20114566, die asteroïde

Hoe groot was dit?

Hoe lank was dit?

so lank soos 2 huiskatte van neus tot stertso lank soos 6 piesangs punt aan puntkon in 14 sekondes oor 'n hele sokkerveld vlieg

Hoe groot was Songlingornis vergeleke met JOU?

Net wiskunde in jou blaaier. Niks word gestoor of êrens heen gestuur nie.

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)

Songlingornis 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

Songlingornis had more than nine teeth in its lower jaw, which is unusual for many early birds.1

Its sternum (breastbone) had a deep groove for the coracoid bone and a keel, which helped it fly.1

The only known fossil of Songlingornis is a partial skeleton missing the skull and forelimb, found in the Jiufotang Formation, a famous fossil site in China.1

It lived alongside fish, other birds like Cathayornis and Chaoyangia, and many other creatures in a lake environment.2

Scientists classify Songlingornis as an ornithuromorph bird, meaning it is more closely related to modern birds than to enantiornithines.1

KI-prent van Songlingornis — 'n KI-prent van hoe Songlingornis 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.

Mite-breker

Mite: Some people think Songlingornis was a dinosaur because it lived in the Mesozoic Era.

Waarheid: Songlingornis was a bird, and birds are a type of dinosaur (theropod), so it is both a bird and a dinosaur at the same time.1

Vir dino-kenners

Wetenskaplike naam: Songlingornis
Benoem deur: Hou 19973
Groep: Vroeë voëls
Familie / klade: Hongshanornithidae3
Klassifikasie: Theropoda > Avialae3
Ouderdom van die rotse: 121 tot 113 miljoen jaar (Aptian)3
Rotsformasies: Jiufotang3
Lande: China3
Fossielrekords: 1 in The Paleobiology Database3
Ontdekking: The Chinese paleontologist Hou Lianhai named Songlingornis in 1997, based on a partial skeleton discovered in the Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning Province, China. The fossil was collected during searches for ancient fish in the 1990s.1 2
Steeds omstrede: Scientists debate whether Songlingornis belongs to the family Hongshanornithidae or Songlingornithidae, because the skeleton is incomplete and different studies place it in different groups.1

Waar die feite vandaan kom

PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Mesozoic Birds of China (naturalhistory.si.edu)
Songlingornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.

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