恐龍卡第 1637 張，共 2 027 張

Shenqiornis

名字的意思： “Shenqi means 'magical' in Chinese, and ornis means 'bird' in Greek. So it is the 'magical bird'.”1

吃：肉早期鳥類侏羅紀晚期到白堊紀早期

Shenqiornis was a small, toothed bird that lived in what is now China. It had a strong beak and sharp teeth, and it probably hunted insects and other small animals. Its skull was built like a reptile's, with two openings behind the eye.1 3

生存年代

162 到 121 百萬年前3

侏羅紀晚期到白堊紀早期

化石發現地

Shenjitu, Qiaotou Formation, northern Hebei, China3 1

最高速度

時速約 27 公里（17 英里）

飛行, 估計值

牠生活在什麼時候？

三疊紀

侏羅紀

白堊紀

2 億 5200 萬年前20114566，小行星撞地球

牠有多快？

走路的人 時速約 5 公里 (3 mph)

騎腳踏車的小朋友 時速約 12 公里 (7 mph)

Shenqiornis 時速約 27 公里 (17 mph)

一匹飛奔的馬 時速約 65 公里 (40 mph)

一隻獵豹 時速約 100 公里 (62 mph)

酷東西

趣味知識

Shenqiornis is known from a nearly complete skeleton with carbonized feather traces, found in China.2

It belonged to a group of ancient birds called enantiornithines, which had teeth and clawed wings.1

Shenqiornis had a large postorbital bone with a long, tapering jugal process, meaning its skull might have been fully diapsid (with two openings behind each eye) like some early birds.1

Its tooth shape is unique among enantiornithines and suggests it had a special diet, possibly eating different prey than its relatives.1

The fossils were found in rocks that are between about 161 and 121 million years old, from the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous.2

Shenqiornis 的 AI 繪圖 — 這是電腦根據科學家目前的知識，用 AI 畫出 Shenqiornis 可能的樣子。這只是猜測：真正的動物可能長得不一樣，也沒有人知道牠真正的顏色。

給恐龍專家

學名: Shenqiornis
命名者: Wang et al. 20103
類群: 早期鳥類
科 / 演化支: Bohaiornithidae3
分類: Theropoda > Avialae3
岩石的年代: 162 到 121 百萬年 (Oxfordian / Barremian)3
岩層: Qiaotou3
國家: 中國3
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆3
發現: Shenqiornis was named by Xuri Wang and colleagues in 2010. The type specimen, a nearly complete skeleton with feather traces, was found at Shenjitu in the Qiaotou Formation of northern Hebei, China.3 1
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure exactly what Shenqiornis ate. Its unusual teeth hint at a special diet, but no one knows for sure what that was.1