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Cruralispennia

Leina le raya: “leg feather”1
E jele: NamaDinonyane tsa ntlhaTshimologo ya Cretaceous

Cruralispennia was a tiny, feathered bird that lived about 131 million years ago in what is now China. It had strange, wiry feathers on its legs that no other bird had before or since!1

E tshetse
dimilione tsa dingwaga di le 133 go ya go 126 tse di fetileng4
Tshimologo ya Cretaceous
Difosili di fitlhetswe kwa
Sichakou Basin, Fengning County, Hebei Province, northeastern China1
Bonako jo bogolo
e ka nna 27 km/h (17 mph)
Go fofa, kakanyo

E tshetse leng?

Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
dimilione tsa dingwaga di le 252 tse di fetileng20114566, asteroiti

E ne e le bonako go le kae?

dilo tse di monate

Dintlha tse di monate

1

Cruralispennia had a plough-shaped pygostyle, a fused tail bone that was thought to only exist in more advanced birds. This shows that different bird groups evolved similar features separately.1

2

Its leg feathers were unlike any seen before: the base was like a stiff wire, and the tip was fluffy and split into many tiny strands.1

3

Even though Cruralispennia lived very early in bird history, its shoulder bone (coracoid) was already very slender, a shape usually found in later Cretaceous birds.1

4

The name Cruralispennia means 'leg feather' in Latin, because of the unusual feathers on its shin bone (tibiotarsus).1

5

This bird had 14 teeth in its lower jaw, which is why its full species name is multidonta, meaning 'many teeth'.1

6

Cruralispennia lived alongside other early birds like Protopteryx and Eoconfuciusornis in the same ancient lake environment.1

E dirilwe ke AISetshwantsho sa Cruralispennia se se dirilweng ke AI
Setshwantsho se se dirilweng ke AI sa kafa Cruralispennia e ka tswang e ne e lebega ka gone, se dirilwe ke khomputara go ya ka se borasaense ba se itseng. Ke kakanyo fela: phologolo ya nnete e ka tswa e ne e lebega ka tsela e sele, mme ga go ope yo o itseng mebala ya yona ya nnete.
o botsitse

Dipotso tse di botswang thata ka ga Cruralispennia

?How big was Cruralispennia?

Cruralispennia was a tiny bird, about the size of a modern sparrow. Its leg feathers were only 12 to 16 mm long.23

?Where did Cruralispennia live?

It lived in what is now China, around a lake in the Sichakou Basin about 131 million years ago.2

?What did Cruralispennia eat?

Scientists think Cruralispennia likely ate insects or small prey, because it had sharp, curved claws and many teeth in its lower jaw.23

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Leina la saense
Cruralispennia
Leina le neilwe ke
Wang et al. 20174
Setlhopha
Dinonyane tsa ntlha
Lelapa / clade
Enantiornithes4
Thulaganyo
Theropoda > Avialae4
Bogolo jwa matlapa
133 go ya go 126 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Hauterivian)4
Dibopego tsa matlapa
Huajiying4
Dinaga
Tšhaena4
Direkoto tsa difosili
1 mo The Paleobiology Database4
Go fitlhelwa
Cruralispennia was named in 2017 by Min Wang and colleagues from a nearly complete skeleton found in the Huajiying Formation of China.41
Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
Scientists are not sure what the strange leg feathers were used for. They might have helped with display, insulation, or even sensing the environment.1

Kwa dintlha di tswang teng

  1. npg.nature.com (npg.nature.com)
  2. Cruralispennia (en.wikipedia.org)
  3. A bizarre Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird with unique crural feathers and an ornithuromorph plough-shaped pygostyle | Nature Communications (nature.com)
  4. Cruralispennia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.

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