Biology:Lenesornis
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Short description: Extinct genus of birds
Lenesornis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
Genus: | †Lenesornis Kurochkin, 1996 |
Species: | †L. maltshevskyi
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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 90 Ma 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
Wikidata ☰ Q6522412 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenesornis.
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