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Kuszholia lived about 90 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period.1
Its name comes from the Kazakh words for 'Milky Way bird'.1
Scientists only know Kuszholia from a few small vertebrae, which have hollow chambers inside them.1
Russian paleontologist Lev Nesov named Kuszholia in 1992.1
Some scientists think Kuszholia was an early bird, while others believe it was a close relative of birds.1
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- Scientific name
- Kuszholia
- Named by
- Nessov 19922
- Group
- Early birds
- Family / clade
- Ornithurae2
- Classification
- Theropoda > Avialae2
- Age of the rocks
- 94 to 90 million years (Turonian)2
- Rock formations
- Bissekty2
- Countries
- Uzbekistan2
- Fossil records
- 2 in the Paleobiology Database2
- Discovery
- Russian paleontologist Lev Alexandrovich Nesov described and named Kuszholia in 1992, based on a set of small vertebrae found in the Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan.1
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure whether Kuszholia was a true bird or a bird-like dinosaur, because only a few vertebrae have been found.1
Where the facts come from
- Kuszholia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Kuszholia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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