- The Enantiornithes, also
known as
enantiornithines or
enantiornitheans in literature, are a
group of
extinct avialans ("birds" in the
broad sense), the...
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Avisaurus (meaning "bird lizard") is a
genus of
enantiornithine avialan from the Late
Cretaceous of
North America.
Avisaurus archibaldi was discovered...
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Navaornis is an
extinct genus of
enantiornithine birds from the Late
Cretaceous Adamantina Formation of Brazil. The
genus contains a
single species, N...
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paleontologist Howard Hutchison discovered fossilized remains of an
enantiornithine bird. For a long time they have not been described; they were sometimes...
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Avisauridae is a
family of
extinct enantiornithine dinosaurs from the
Cretaceous period,
distinguished by
several features of
their ankle bones. Depending...
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Reconstruction of
Iberomesornis romerali, a
toothed enantiornithine...
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Magnusavis (meaning "big bird") is an
extinct genus of
large enantiornithine birds from the Late
Cretaceous (Maastrichtian-aged) **** Cr**** Formation...
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after birth. It has been
speculated that
superprecociality prevented enantiornithines from
acquiring specialized toe
anatomy seen in
modern altricial birds...
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ancient relatives of
modern birds,
including Eoalulavis hoyasi (an
enantiornithine from the mid-Cretaceous, 115 mya) and the
earlier Protopteryx fengningensis...
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behavioural differences clearly exist between enantiornithines and
megapodes (e.g.,
enantiornithines were
arboreal and not mound-nesters), megapodes...
