Gracilornis
Gracilornis was a tiny, early bird that lived in China during the Age of Dinosaurs. It had a very slender skeleton and could fly, but it was not a dinosaur itself. It belonged to a group of ancient birds called enantiornithines.12
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Gracilornis had a very small sternum, or breastbone, compared to its body length. The sternum was only about 11% of the trunk length.3
This bird lived around 110 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous period.1
The name Gracilornis comes from Latin and Greek words meaning 'slender bird', because its skeleton was very thin and light.1
Gracilornis is known from a nearly complete skull and skeleton, which helps scientists understand what it looked like.1
It belonged to a group called Enantiornithes, which were the most common birds during the Cretaceous period.1

Kwa akatswiri a madino
- Dzina la sayansi
- Gracilornis
- Anapatsidwa dzina ndi
- Li and Hou 20114
- Gulu
- Mbalame zoyambirira
- Banja / kladi
- Cathayornithidae4
- Magawidwe a sayansi
- Theropoda > Avialae4
- Zaka za miyala
- zaka 121 mpaka 113 miliyoni (Aptian)4
- Mapangidwe a miyala
- Jiufotang4
- Mayiko
- China4
- Zolemba za mafosili
- 1 mu The Paleobiology Database4
- Kupezeka
- Gracilornis was named by Li Li and Hou Shilin in 2011. They found the fossil in the Jiufotang Formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.1
- Akukambiranabe
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Gracilornis flew, because its small sternum might mean it had weak flight muscles.3
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- Gracilornis (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Gracilornis, enantiornithine bird from China (reptilis.net)
- Gracilornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): zaka, malo, mapangidwe a miyala, magawidwe a sayansi.
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