Songlingornis

Erinnya litegeeza: “Songling bird, named after a place in China”1

Yalyanga: EnnyamaEbinyonyi eby'olubereberyeEntandikwa ya Kuretasi

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.1 2

Yabeerawo

emyaka obukadde 121 okutuuka ku 113 emabega3

Entandikwa ya Kuretasi

Ebisigalira byazuulibwa mu

Liaoning Province, China (near Boluochi, Chaoyang County)1 2

Obuwanvu

0.1 okutuuka ku 1 m (0.3 okutuuka ku 3.3 ft)1

Sipiidi esinga

nga 27 km/h (17 mph)

Okubuuka, kuteebereza

Yabeerawo ddi?

Tiriyasi

Jurasiki

Kuretasi

Emyaka obukadde 252 emabega20114566, asteroyidi

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Omuntu atambula nga 5 km/h (3 mph)

Omwana ku kagaali nga 12 km/h (7 mph)

Songlingornis nga 27 km/h (17 mph)

Embalaasi edduka ennyo nga 65 km/h (40 mph)

Cheetah nga 100 km/h (62 mph)

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Ebyewuunyisa

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

Ekifaananyi kya Songlingornis ekyakolebwa AI, nga kiraga engeri gye yayinza okuba ng'afaanana, ekyakolebwa kompyuta okusinziira ku ebyo bannassaayansi bye bamanyi. Kuteebereza: ekisolo ekyennyini kiyinza okuba nga kyali kifaanana bulala, era tewali amanyi langi zaakyo ez'amazima.

Omumenyi w'enfumo

Enfumo: Some people think Songlingornis was a dinosaur because it lived in the Mesozoic Era.

Amazima: 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

Eri abakugu mu dayinoso

Erinnya lya ssaayansi: Songlingornis
Yatuumibwa: Hou 19973
Ekibinja: Ebinyonyi eby'olubereberye
Ekika / ekibinja: Hongshanornithidae3
Engabanya: Theropoda > Avialae3
Emyaka gy'enjazi: emyaka obukadde 121 okutuuka ku 113 (Aptian)3
Ensengeka z'enjazi: Jiufotang3
Ensi: Cayina3
Ebisigalira ebyazuulibwa: 1 mu The Paleobiology Database3
Okuzuulibwa: 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.1 2
Kikyakubaganyizibwako ebirowoozo: 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

Ebituufu gye biva

PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Mesozoic Birds of China (naturalhistory.si.edu)
Songlingornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): emyaka, ebifo, ensengeka z'enjazi, engabanya.

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