Piscivorenantiornis

Il num vul dir: “fish-eating enantiornithine bird”1

Mangiava: PeschUtschels primitivsCretacic tempriv

Piscivorenantiornis was a tiny bird that lived in China about 120 million years ago. It loved eating fish and could even cough up a pellet of fish bones, just like some birds do today!1 2

Viveva

avant 121 fin 113 milliuns onns4

Cretacic tempriv

Fossils chattads en

Liaoning, China1 2

Spertadad maximala

var 27 km/h (17 mph)

Sgular, stima

Cura viveva el?

Triassic

Giurassic

Cretacic

avant 252 milliuns onns20114566, l'asteroid

Quant spert era el?

Ina persuna che va a pe var 5 km/h (3 mph)

In uffant sin il velo var 12 km/h (7 mph)

Piscivorenantiornis var 27 km/h (17 mph)

In chaval che galoppescha var 65 km/h (40 mph)

In gepard var 100 km/h (62 mph)

chaussas cool

Fatgs divertents

It is the first known fish-eating enantiornithine bird.1

The first fossil was found with a neat pile of fish bones in its stomach area, probably a pellet it was about to spit out.1

Its pelvis (hip bones) was completely fused together, which is rare for early Cretaceous birds. Only a couple of other enantiornithines share this feature.2

The sternum (breastbone) had special prongs at the front that most other enantiornithines lack.1

One of the bones in its neck had a weird shape: it was curved up and down on one side and side to side on the other. No other bird has that.3

A second skeleton of this bird was found in 2020, giving scientists more clues about how it lived.1

It lived during the Aptian age, about 121 to 113 million years ago.4

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Per experts da dinos

Num scientific: Piscivorenantiornis
Numnà da: Wang and Zhou 20174
Gruppa: Utschels primitivs
Famiglia / clada: Enantiornithes4
Classificaziun: Theropoda > Avialae4
Vegliadetgna da la crappa: 121 fin 113 milliuns onns (Aptian)4
Formaziuns da crap: Jiufotang4
Pajais: China4
Chats da fossils: 1 en The Paleobiology Database4
Scuverta: The first fossil was found near Dapingfang in Liaoning, China. It was named Piscivorenantiornis inusitatus by Wang, Zhou and Sullivan in 2016.1
Anc discutà: Scientists are still unsure why the neck vertebra has such a strange shape, unlike any other bird.3

Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs

Piscivorenantiornis (en.wikipedia.org)
Insight into the growth pattern and bone fusion of basal birds from an Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird | PNAS (pnas.org)
[dinosaur] Piscivorenantiornis, new fish-eating enantiornithine bird from Early Cretaceous of China (reptilis.net)
Piscivorenantiornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.

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