Yuanjiawaornis
Yuanjiawaornis was a big, powerful bird that lived about 120 million years ago in what is now China. It was one of the largest birds of its time, with a wingspan nearly half a metre wide. It probably hunted small animals for food.12
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Datos curiosos
Yuanjiawaornis is known from a nearly complete skeleton without a skull, found in 2005 by a paleontologist near the village of Yuanjiawa.1
Most enantiornithine birds were as small as sparrows or starlings, but Yuanjiawaornis was much larger, about the size of Zhouornis.12
The fossil of Yuanjiawaornis has no preserved feathers, which is unusual for bird fossils from Liaoning.1
Yuanjiawaornis lived during the Early Cretaceous period, about 120 million years ago, in the Jiufotang Formation.13
The holotype specimen was probably a young adult, because its wrist bones were not fully fused.2
Yuanjiawaornis had a uniquely shaped synsacrum (a fused part of the backbone) that may be special to enantiornithine birds.2

Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Yuanjiawaornis
- Bautizado por
- Hu et al. 20154
- Grupo
- Aves primitivas
- Familia / clado
- Enantiornithes4
- Clasificación
- Theropoda > Avialae4
- Idade das rochas
- de 121 a 113 millóns de anos (Aptian)4
- Formacións rochosas
- Jiufotang4
- Países
- China4
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database4
- Descubrimento
- Yuanjiawaornis was named in 2015 by Hu Dongyu and colleagues based on a skeleton found in 2005 near Yuanjiawa village in Liaoning, China.12
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Yuanjiawaornis is related to other enantiornithine birds, because its skull is missing.1
De onde veñen os datos
- Yuanjiawaornis (en.wikipedia.org)
- Yuanjiawaornis viriosus , gen. et sp. nov., a large enantiornithine bird from the Lower Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China (sciencedirect.com)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Yuanjiawaornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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