Shangyang graciles

This article is about the species of fossil bird. For the mythical Chinese bird, see Shangyang (rainbird). For the ancient city of the same name, see Western Guo.

Shangyang
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
~125–120 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Avialae
Clade: †Enantiornithes
Genus: †Shangyang
Wang & Zhou, 2019
Type species
†Shangyang graciles
Wang & Zhou, 2019

Shangyang (after the mythical Chinese rainbird) is an extinct genus of enantiornithine birds that lived in the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of what is now the Liaoning Province of China. The type and only species is S. graciles; the species epithet is derived from the Latin word "gracilis", in reference to the slenderness of its limbs.[1]

References

  1. ^ Wang, Min; Zhou, Zhonghe (2019). "A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) with completely fused premaxillae from the Early Cretaceous of China". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17 (15): 1299–1312. Bibcode:2019JSPal..17.1299W. doi:10.1080/14772019.2018.1527403.