Limenavis
Limenavis was a bird that lived near the end of the age of dinosaurs, about 70 million years ago. It was one of the closest relatives of all modern birds that scientists have ever found in the fossil record.1
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Цікавыя факты
Limenavis is known only from a few broken wing bones, but these bones show it was more advanced than older birds like Ichthyornis.3
Its name means 'bird of the threshold' because it lived right at the doorstep of modern birds.1
Scientists have debated whether Limenavis was closer to modern birds or to more primitive ones, and different studies have placed it in different groups.1
Some scientists think Limenavis might be related to the ancestors of tinamous or rheas, which are birds that still live in South America today.1
Limenavis lived in what is now Patagonia, Argentina, during the Late Cretaceous period, about 70 million years ago.1

Пра што найчасцей пытаюцца: Limenavis
?Was Limenavis a dinosaur?
Yes, Limenavis is a genus of ornithuran dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous. It is one of the closest relatives of modern birds.1
?How big was Limenavis?
Nobody knows for sure. Only a few broken wing bones have been found, so scientists cannot estimate its full size.1
?When did Limenavis live?
Limenavis lived about 70 million years ago, near the end of the Cretaceous period.1
?Where was Limenavis found?
Its fossils were found in Patagonia, Argentina, at a site called Salitral Moreno, about 20 km south of General Roca.1
Для знаўцаў дыназаўраў
- Навуковая назва
- Limenavis
- Назву даў
- Clarke and Chiappe 20014
- Група
- Першыя птушкі
- Сямейства / клада
- Ornithurae4
- Класіфікацыя
- Theropoda > Avialae4
- Узрост парод
- ад 72 да 66 мільёнаў гадоў (Maastrichtian)4
- Горныя пароды
- Allen4
- Краіны
- Аргенціна4
- Знаходкі выкапняў
- 1 у базе The Paleobiology Database4
- Адкрыццё
- Limenavis was named by Julia Clarke and Luis Chiappe in 2001, based on wing bones found in the Allen Formation of Argentina.31
- Навукоўцы яшчэ спрачаюцца
- Scientists still debate whether Limenavis was closer to modern birds or to more primitive birds like Ichthyornis.1
Адкуль бяруцца факты
- Limenavis (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- A new carinate bird from the late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina). American Museum novitates ; no. 3323 (digitallibrary.amnh.org)
- Limenavis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): узрост, месцы, горныя пароды, класіфікацыя.
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