Abavornis
Abavornis was a tiny, primitive bird that lived alongside the dinosaurs. It had feathers and flew through the forests of ancient Uzbekistan. Only a single broken shoulder bone has been found, so it is a bit of a mystery bird.1
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Abavornis is known from just one broken shoulder bone, called a coracoid.1
It lived about 92 million years ago during the Turonian age of the Late Cretaceous.1
Scientists think Abavornis was an enantiornithine, a group of primitive birds that had teeth and claws on their wings.1
This bird was named after the famous Argentine paleontologist José Bonaparte.1
A second, very similar shoulder bone has been found, but it might belong to the same species.1
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- Scientific name
- Abavornis
- Named by
- Panteleyev 19984
- Group
- Early birds
- Family / clade
- Alexornithidae4
- Classification
- Theropoda > Avialae4
- Age of the rocks
- 94 to 90 million years (Turonian)4
- Rock formations
- Bissekty4
- Countries
- Uzbekistan4
- Fossil records
- 2 in the Paleobiology Database4
- Discovery
- Abavornis was named by Russian paleontologist Andrey V. Panteleyev in 1998. The fossil was found in the Bissekty Formation of the Kyzylkum Desert in Uzbekistan.1
- Still debated
- Because only a single bone has been found, scientists are not completely sure that Abavornis really is a distinct kind of bird. It might turn out to be the same as another enantiornithine.1
Where the facts come from
- Abavornis (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Re: bird sizes (reptilis.net)
- Abavornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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