Piscivorenantiornis
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!12
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E ne e le lebelo hakae?
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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

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Piscivorenantiornis
- E rehilwe ke
- Wang and Zhou 20174
- Sehlopha
- Dinonyana tsa pele
- Lelapa / leloko
- Enantiornithes4
- Tlhophiso
- Theropoda > Avialae4
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 121 ho isa ho 113 (Aptian)4
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Jiufotang4
- Dinaha
- Tjhaena4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database4
- Ho sibollwa
- The first fossil was found near Dapingfang in Liaoning, China. It was named Piscivorenantiornis inusitatus by Wang, Zhou and Sullivan in 2016.1
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are still unsure why the neck vertebra has such a strange shape, unlike any other bird.3
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- 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): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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