Lenesornis
| Lenesornis Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 78 Ma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
| 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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