Camptodontus
Camptodontornis was a small, toothed bird that lived during the Early Cretaceous. It had strong jaws and curved teeth, which helped it catch and eat prey. This bird was an enantiornithine, a group of early birds that went extinct with the dinosaurs.2
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Camptodontornis was originally named Camptodontus, but that name was already used for a beetle, so scientists had to give it a new name in 2019.1
This bird had a Y-shaped furcula, which is the wishbone that helps birds fly.2
Its teeth were strongly curved backward, which helped it hold onto slippery prey.2
Camptodontornis belongs to the family Longipterygidae, a group of early birds with long snouts.2
The only known fossil of Camptodontornis is a nearly complete skeleton found in the Jiufotang Formation of China.3
It lived about 121 to 113 million years ago, during the Aptian age of the Early Cretaceous.3

Kwiingcali zeedayinaso
- Igama lenzululwazi
- Camptodontus
- Inikwe igama ngu:
- Li et al. 20103
- Iqela
- Iintaka zokuqala
- Usapho / iclade
- Longipterygidae3
- Ukuhlelwa
- Theropoda > Avialae3
- Ubudala bamatye
- 121 ukuya ku-113 izigidi zeminyaka (Aptian)3
- Iirekhodi zeefosili
- 1 kwi-Paleobiology Database3
- Ukufunyanwa
- Camptodontornis was first described in 2010 by Li Li and colleagues based on a skeleton from Liaoning, China. It was originally called Camptodontus, but that name was already taken by a beetle, so in 2019 it was renamed Camptodontornis.12
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- Scientists are still debating exactly how Camptodontornis is related to other enantiornithine birds.2
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- Camptodontornis gen. nov., a replacement name for the bird genus Camptodontus Li, Gong, Zhang, Yang, and Hou, 2010, a junior homonym of Camptodontus Dejean, 1826 | Zootaxa (biotaxa.org)
- A NEW ENANTIORNITHINE BIRD(AVES) FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS OF LIAONING,CHINA--《Acta Palaeontologica Sinica》2010年04期 (web.archive.org)
- Camptodontus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ubudala, iindawo, izakhiwo zamatye, ukuhlelwa.
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