Dalingheornis
Dalingheornis was a tiny bird that lived during the early Cretaceous period, about 122 million years ago. It had special feet that helped it climb trees, making it one of the first birds to live in the trees. Its long tail had 20 bones, just like some meat-eating dinosaurs!12
E phetse neng?
E ne e le lebelo hakae?
Dintlha tse monate
Dalingheornis is the first Mesozoic bird known to have heterodactyl feet, which means its toes were arranged for climbing, like a modern woodpecker.12
Its tail was unusually long for a bird, with 20 vertebrae, and it had chevron bones like those of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs.12
The only known fossil is a juvenile, so scientists think the long tail might have been a baby feature that changed as it grew up.1
Dalingheornis was named after Yang Liwei, the first Chinese astronaut in space.1
It lived in the early Cretaceous period, about 122 million years ago, in what is now Liaoning Province, China.1

Mosenyi wa ditshomo
Tshomo: Some people think Dalingheornis had a reversed second toe claw for climbing.
Nnete: Scientists are not sure if the claw was really reversed or just moved after the animal died.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Dalingheornis
- E rehilwe ke
- Zhang et al. 20063
- Sehlopha
- Dinonyana tsa pele
- Lelapa / leloko
- Euenantiornithes3
- Tlhophiso
- Theropoda > Avialae3
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 126 ho isa ho 120 (Barremian / Aptian)3
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Yixian3
- Dinaha
- Tjhaena3
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database3
- Ho sibollwa
- Dalingheornis was named in 2006 by Zhang Zihui and colleagues from a single fossil found in the Yixian Formation in China. The fossil is stored in a private collection.13
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Some scientists think Dalingheornis might not be a valid name because the only fossil is in a private collection and cannot be studied by everyone.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Dalingheornis (en.wikipedia.org)
- The First Mesozoic Heterodactyl Bird from China (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
- Dalingheornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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