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- The Enantiornithes, also known as enantiornithines or enantiornitheans in literature, are a group of extinct avialans ("birds" in the broad sense), the...
- Ornithothoraces is a group of avialan dinosaurs that includes all enantiornithes ("opposite birds") and the euornithes ("true birds"), which includes modern...
- analyses, Clark et al. recovered Magnusavis as a member of the avian clade Enantiornithes, a group of diverse birds that went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous...
- (Sandcoleidae), and Messelasturidae indicating possible common descent. Some Enantiornithes also had such talons, indicating possible convergent evolution, as enanthiornithines...
- It is not known to have any direct descendants. Like the rest of the enantiornithes clade, Gobipteryx is thought to have gone extinct near the end of the...
- of primitive birds that includes Archaeopteryx, Confuciusornis, and Enantiornithes. It is thought by Feduccia and Martin to be phylogenetically separate...
- Enantiornithes, or "opposite birds", so named because the construction of their shoulder bones was in reverse to that of modern birds. Enantiornithes...
- feathers at hatching and which, in some species, can fly on the same day. Enantiornithes and pterosaurs[citation needed] were also capable of flight soon after...
- definitively from only one species, Cathayornis yandica, one of the first Enantiornithes found in China. Several additional species were once incorrectly classified...
- rounded, instead of long and blade-shaped as in other enantiornithes. While most enantiornithes had four long backward projections growing from their...