Songlingornis
Songlingornis was an ancient bird that lived in China during the Early Cretaceous, about 121 to 113 million years ago. It had a slender, long beak with many teeth, and it walked on the ground looking for food like a small carnivore.12
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Datos curiosos
Songlingornis had more than nine teeth in its lower jaw, which is unusual for many early birds.1
Its sternum (breastbone) had a deep groove for the coracoid bone and a keel, which helped it fly.1
The only known fossil of Songlingornis is a partial skeleton missing the skull and forelimb, found in the Jiufotang Formation, a famous fossil site in China.1
It lived alongside fish, other birds like Cathayornis and Chaoyangia, and many other creatures in a lake environment.2
Scientists classify Songlingornis as an ornithuromorph bird, meaning it is more closely related to modern birds than to enantiornithines.1

Cazamitos
Mito: Some people think Songlingornis was a dinosaur because it lived in the Mesozoic Era.
Verdade: Songlingornis was a bird, and birds are a type of dinosaur (theropod), so it is both a bird and a dinosaur at the same time.1
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Songlingornis
- Bautizado por
- Hou 19973
- Grupo
- Aves primitivas
- Familia / clado
- Hongshanornithidae3
- Clasificación
- Theropoda > Avialae3
- Idade das rochas
- de 121 a 113 millóns de anos (Aptian)3
- Formacións rochosas
- Jiufotang3
- Países
- China3
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database3
- Descubrimento
- The Chinese paleontologist Hou Lianhai named Songlingornis in 1997, based on a partial skeleton discovered in the Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning Province, China. The fossil was collected during searches for ancient fish in the 1990s.12
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists debate whether Songlingornis belongs to the family Hongshanornithidae or Songlingornithidae, because the skeleton is incomplete and different studies place it in different groups.1
De onde veñen os datos
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Mesozoic Birds of China (naturalhistory.si.edu)
- Songlingornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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