Lenesornis

Lenesornis; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 78 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	†Enantiornithes
Genus:	†Lenesornis; Kurochkin, 1996
Species:	†L. maltshevskyi
Binomial name
	Lenesornis maltshevskyi; (Nesov, 1986 [originally Ichthyornis)
Synonyms
	Ichthyornis maltshevskyi ; Nesov, 1986;

Lenesornis is a genus of enantiornithine birds which lived during the Late Cretaceous about 78 mya and is known from fossils found in the Bissekty Formation in the Kyzyl Kum, Uzbekistan.^[1]

References

↑ Kurochkin, E. N. (1996) A new enantiornithid of the Mongolian Late Cretaceous, and a general appraisal of the infraclass Enantiornithes (Aves). Russian Academy of Sciences Palaeontological Institute Special Issue 1-60

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