Elektorornis
Elektorornis was a tiny bird that lived about 99 million years ago. It had a super long middle toe, much longer than its other toes. Scientists think it used that long toe to poke into tree bark and find tasty bugs to eat.12
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Elektorornis is the first bird species ever described from fossils found in Burmese amber.1
Its third toe was 20% longer than its whole foot bone (tarsometatarsus). No other known bird, alive or extinct, has such a long toe compared to its foot.2
This bird was smaller than a sparrow. It was an enantiornithine, a group of early birds that lived alongside dinosaurs.12
The only known fossil of Elektorornis is a partial right leg and some wing feathers, all preserved in a piece of amber.12
Elektorornis had big, curved claws and a long hallux (back toe) that helped it grip branches. It was an arboreal bird, meaning it lived in trees.2
Scientists think Elektorornis may have had a toothless beak to pry into wood, like a woodpecker, to reach insects.1

Mpo na bayebi ya badino
- Nkombo ya siansi
- Elektorornis
- Nkombo epesamaki na
- Xing et al. 20193
- Lisanga
- Bandeke ya liboso
- Libota / klade
- Enantiornithes3
- Klasifikasio
- Theropoda > Avialae3
- Mbula ya mabanga
- mbula milio 100 kino 94 (Cenomanian)3
- Bikolo
- Myanmar3
- Bafosile oyo ekomami
- 1 na The Paleobiology Database3
- Ntango bamonaki yango
- Elektorornis chenguangi was named in 2019 by Lida Xing and colleagues. The fossil was found in Burmese amber at the Angbamo locality in Myanmar. The species name honors Chen Guang, a curator at the Hupoge Amber Museum.21
- Naino bazali kowelana
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Elektorornis used its extra-long middle toe. It might have been for probing tree bark for insects, or for better climbing, or both.2
Esika makambo euti
- Elektorornis (en.wikipedia.org)
- A New Enantiornithine Bird with Unusual Pedal Proportions Found in Amber: Current Biology (cell.com)
- Elektorornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): mbula, bisika, milongo ya mabanga, klasifikasio.
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