Lenesornis
Lenesornis Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 78 Ma | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | Saurischia |
Suborder: | Theropoda |
Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
Clade: | †Euenantiornithes |
Genus: | †Lenesornis Kurochkin, 1996 |
Species: | † L. maltshevskyi |
Binomial name | |
Lenesornis maltshevskyi (Nesov, 1986 [originally Ichthyornis) | |
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Lenesornis is a genus of enantiornithine birds which lived during the Late Cretaceous about 78 mya and is known from fossils found in the Bissekty Formation in the Kyzyl Kum, Uzbekistan.[1]
References
- ↑ Kurochkin, E. N. (1996) A new enantiornithid of the Mongolian Late Cretaceous, and a general appraisal of the infraclass Enantiornithes (Aves). Russian Academy of Sciences Palaeontological Institute Special Issue 1-60
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