Camptodontus
Camptodontornis was a small, toothed bird that lived during the Early Cretaceous. It had strong jaws and curved teeth, which helped it catch and eat prey. This bird was an enantiornithine, a group of early birds that went extinct with the dinosaurs.2
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Camptodontornis was originally named Camptodontus, but that name was already used for a beetle, so scientists had to give it a new name in 2019.1
This bird had a Y-shaped furcula, which is the wishbone that helps birds fly.2
Its teeth were strongly curved backward, which helped it hold onto slippery prey.2
Camptodontornis belongs to the family Longipterygidae, a group of early birds with long snouts.2
The only known fossil of Camptodontornis is a nearly complete skeleton found in the Jiufotang Formation of China.3
It lived about 121 to 113 million years ago, during the Aptian age of the Early Cretaceous.3

Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Camptodontus
- Bautizado por
- Li et al. 20103
- Grupo
- Aves primitivas
- Familia / clado
- Longipterygidae3
- Clasificación
- Theropoda > Avialae3
- Idade das rochas
- de 121 a 113 millóns de anos (Aptian)3
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database3
- Descubrimento
- Camptodontornis was first described in 2010 by Li Li and colleagues based on a skeleton from Liaoning, China. It was originally called Camptodontus, but that name was already taken by a beetle, so in 2019 it was renamed Camptodontornis.12
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are still debating exactly how Camptodontornis is related to other enantiornithine birds.2
De onde veñen os datos
- Camptodontornis gen. nov., a replacement name for the bird genus Camptodontus Li, Gong, Zhang, Yang, and Hou, 2010, a junior homonym of Camptodontus Dejean, 1826 | Zootaxa (biotaxa.org)
- A NEW ENANTIORNITHINE BIRD(AVES) FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS OF LIAONING,CHINA--《Acta Palaeontologica Sinica》2010年04期 (web.archive.org)
- Camptodontus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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