Dapingfangornis

Dapingfangornis Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 120 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Subclass:	Enantiornithes
Genus:	Dapingfangornis
Species
D. sentisorhinus (type)

Dapingfangornis was an enantiornithine bird. It lived during the Early Cretaceous and is known from fossils—including a complete skeleton—found in the Jiufotang Formation in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China. Small to medium-sized, it had a sternum with both long and short lateral processes, and a unique thorn-like process on its nares.^[1]

References

1. ^ Li Li; Ye Duan, Dongyu Hu, Li Wang, Shaoli Cheng, Lianhai Hou (2006). "New Eoenantiornithid Bird from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Western Liaoning, China". Acta Geologica Sinica 80 (1): 38–41. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2006.tb00792.x.