- Noguerornis
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Noguerornis
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 130 MaScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Subclass: †Enantiornithes Order: †Iberomesornithiformes Family: †Iberomesornithidae Genus: †Noguerornis
Lacasa-Ruiz, 1989Species: †N. gonzalezi Binomial name Noguerornis gonzalezi
Lacasa-Ruiz, 1989Noguerornis is a genus of enantiornithine bird related to Iberomesornis. It lived during the Early Cretaceous (early Barremian age) about 130 mya and is known from fossils found at El Montsec, Spain.[1]
References
- ^ 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.
Categories:- Genera of birds
- Cretaceous birds
- Iberomesornithiformes
- Enantiornithes
- Prehistoric bird stubs
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