-
range into the Late
Cretaceous of Madagascar, and
several ****tive
pengornithids also hail from this formation.
Specimens of
these animals have been...
-
similar to
feathers present in Paraprotopteryx. Chiappeavis, a
primitive pengornithid, had a fan of tail
feathers similar to that of more
primitive avialans...
-
iridescent feathers. In
their 2021
description of the
Early Cretaceous pengornithid Yuanchuavis, Wang et al.
described the
presence of
eumelanosomes in the...
- [and] many
nearly complete postcranial skeletons." An
enantiornithean Xiangornis X.
shenmi An
enantiornithean Yuanchuavis Y.
kompsosoura An
pengornithid...
- A rich
avifauna with
several undescribed taxa are known,
including pengornithid enantiornithes and ****tive omnivoropterygids.
Mammal remains include...
- "Yuanchu bird",
after a
mythical Chinese bird) is an
extinct genus of
pengornithid bird in the
group Enantiornithes. Its type and only specimen, IVPP V27883...
-
Museum of
Nature in
Pingyi County, Shandong.
Chiappeavis was
large for a
pengornithid. The
skull was
triangular in side view with a
blunt snout tip. The tip...
- X.; Zheng, X.; Bright, J. A. (2023). "Quantitative
investigation of
pengornithid enantiornithine diet
reveals macrocarnivorous ecology evolved in birds...
- re****igned to
Parapengornis by
these authors.
Parapengornis was a
large pengornithid,
distinguished from its
relatives by a
combination of
features such as...
-
medullary bone in fossils, and
report probable medullary bone from a
pengornithid enantiornithine specimen from the
Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation...
