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
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Clade:	†Enantiornithes
Genus:	†Dapingfangornis; Li et al., 2006
Species:	†D. sentisorhinus
Binomial name
	†Dapingfangornis sentisorhinus; Li et al., 2006

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]1

References

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.

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[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.