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Evgenavis

Say it: ev-GEN-ah-vis

Name means: “Evgeny's bird, named after the Russian paleontologist Evgeny Kurochkin”1

Ate: MeatEarly birdsEarly Cretaceous

Evgenavis was a small, bird-like dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous period. It had strong legs and sharp claws, and it probably hunted for food on the ground.3 2

Lived

126 to 113 million years ago3

Early Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Shestakovo-3 locality, Ilek Formation, western Siberia, Russia3 2

Food

Meat3

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

cool stuff

Fun facts

Evgenavis is known only from a single fossil bone, a tarsometatarsus (a foot bone).1 2

Scientists are not sure exactly what group Evgenavis belongs to. It might be a confuciusornithiform (like the early beaked bird Confuciusornis) or an enantiornithine (a different group of early birds).1 2

The fossil of Evgenavis was found in 2007 by a joint expedition from the Zoological Institute, Tomsk University, and Saint Petersburg University.2

Evgenavis lived during the Early Cretaceous, about 125 to 113 million years ago.3

The name Evgenavis honors Evgeny Kurochkin, a famous Russian paleontologist who studied ancient birds.1

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Scientific name: Evgenavis
Named by: O'Connor et al. 20143
Group: Early birds
Family / clade: Enantiornithes3
Classification: Theropoda > Avialae3
Age of the rocks: 126 to 113 million years (Barremian / Aptian)3
Rock formations: Ilek3
Countries: Russia3
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
Discovery: Evgenavis was named in 2014 by Jingmai O'Connor, Alexander Averianov, and Nikita Zelenkov. The only fossil, a foot bone, was found at the Shestakovo-3 site in western Siberia.3 2
Still debated: Scientists still debate whether Evgenavis was a confuciusornithiform or an enantiornithine bird. More fossils are needed to be sure.1 2

Where the facts come from

Evgenavis (en.wikipedia.org)
A confuciusornithiform (Aves, Pygostylia)-like tarsometatarsus from the Early Cretaceous of Siberia and a discussion of the evolution of avian hind limb musculature (tandfonline.com)
Evgenavis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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