Mystiornis

Mystiornis Temporal range: Barremian–Aptian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Mystiornithiformes Kurochkin et al., 2011
Genus:	Mystiornis Kurochkin et al., 2011
Species
M. cyrili Kurochkin et al., 2011 (type)

Mystiornis is an extinct genus of bird which existed in what is now western Siberia, Russia during the early Cretaceous period (Barremian/Aptian age). It is known from an isolated metatarsus found in the Shestakovo-1 locality of southern Western Siberia. It was named by Evgeny N. Kurochkin, Nikita V. Zelenkov, Alexandr O. Averianov and Sergei V. Leshchinskiy in 2011, and the type species is Mystiornis cyrili.^[1]

References

1. ^ Evgeny N. Kurochkin; Nikita V. Zelenkov; Alexandr O. Averianov; Sergei V. Leshchinskiy (2011). "A new taxon of birds (Aves) from the Early Cretaceous of Western Siberia, Russia". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 9 (1): 109–117. doi:10.1080/14772019.2010.522202. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a931515544~frm=titlelink.