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Cathayornis
Extinct genus of birds / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cathayornis is a genus of enantiornithean birds from the Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning, People's Republic of China. It is known definitively from only one species, Cathayornis yandica, one of the first Enantiornithes found in China. Several additional species were once incorrectly classified as Cathayornis, and have since been reclassified or regarded as nomina dubia.
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Cathayornis | |
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Specimen on display at the Beijing Museum of Natural History. | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Avialae |
Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
Clade: | †Euenantiornithes |
Genus: | †Cathayornis Zhou, Jin & Zhang, 1992 |
Type species | |
†Cathayornis yandica Zhou et al., 1992 | |
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