Biology:Noguerornis

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Short description: Extinct genus of birds

Noguerornis
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 130 Ma
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Enantiornithes
Genus: Noguerornis
Lacasa-Ruiz, 1989
Species:
N. gonzalezi
Binomial name
Noguerornis gonzalezi
Lacasa-Ruiz, 1989

Noguerornis is a genus of enantiornithine bird possibly related to Iberomesornis. It lived during the Early Cretaceous (early Barremian age) about 130 mya and is known from fossils found in the La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation at El Montsec, Spain .[1][2]

References

  1. Lacasa-Ruiz, A. (1989) New genus of fossil bird from the Neocomian locality of Montsec (Lerida province, Spain). Estudios Geológicos 45(5-6):417-425.
  2. Chiappe, L. and Lacasa-Ruiz (2002). "Noguerornis gonzalezi (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Early Cretaceous of Spain." Pp. 230-239 in Chiappe and Witmer, (eds.). Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London.

Wikidata ☰ Q7047527 entry