恐龍卡第 1688 張，共 2 027 張

Songlingornis

名字的意思： “Songling bird, named after a place in China”1

吃：肉早期鳥類白堊紀早期

Songlingornis was an ancient bird that lived in China during the Early Cretaceous, about 121 to 113 million years ago. It had a slender, long beak with many teeth, and it walked on the ground looking for food like a small carnivore.1 2

生存年代

121 到 113 百萬年前3

白堊紀早期

化石發現地

Liaoning Province, China (near Boluochi, Chaoyang County)1 2

長度

0.1 到 1 m (0.3 到 3.3 ft)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

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

跟 2 隻家貓從鼻子接到尾巴一樣長跟 6 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長能在 14 秒內飛越一整座足球場

Songlingornis 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡算算數學。什麼都不會被儲存或傳送出去。

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)

Songlingornis 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

Songlingornis had more than nine teeth in its lower jaw, which is unusual for many early birds.1

Its sternum (breastbone) had a deep groove for the coracoid bone and a keel, which helped it fly.1

The only known fossil of Songlingornis is a partial skeleton missing the skull and forelimb, found in the Jiufotang Formation, a famous fossil site in China.1

It lived alongside fish, other birds like Cathayornis and Chaoyangia, and many other creatures in a lake environment.2

Scientists classify Songlingornis as an ornithuromorph bird, meaning it is more closely related to modern birds than to enantiornithines.1

Songlingornis 的 AI 繪圖 — 這是電腦根據科學家目前的知識，用 AI 畫出 Songlingornis 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。

迷思破解王

迷思： Some people think Songlingornis was a dinosaur because it lived in the Mesozoic Era.

真相： Songlingornis was a bird, and birds are a type of dinosaur (theropod), so it is both a bird and a dinosaur at the same time.1

給恐龍專家

學名: Songlingornis
命名者: Hou 19973
類群: 早期鳥類
科 / 演化支: Hongshanornithidae3
分類: Theropoda > Avialae3
岩石的年代: 121 到 113 百萬年 (Aptian)3
岩層: Jiufotang3
國家: 中國3
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆3
發現: The Chinese paleontologist Hou Lianhai named Songlingornis in 1997, based on a partial skeleton discovered in the Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning Province, China. The fossil was collected during searches for ancient fish in the 1990s.1 2
仍有爭議: Scientists debate whether Songlingornis belongs to the family Hongshanornithidae or Songlingornithidae, because the skeleton is incomplete and different studies place it in different groups.1