Beiguornis
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beiguornis is a genus of bohaiornithid dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Longjiang Formation of Inner Mongolia, China. The genus contains a single species, Beiguornis khinganensis. Beiguornis is the first and only enantiornithine known from the Longjiang Formation. In the phylogenetic analysis conducted by the describing authors, Beiguornis formed a monophyletic group with the bohaiornithids Sulcavis and Zhouornis.[2]
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Beiguornis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Avialae |
Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
Family: | †Bohaiornithidae |
Genus: | †Beiguornis Wang et al., 2022 |
Species: | †B. khinganensis |
Binomial name | |
†Beiguornis khinganensis Wang et al., 2022 | |
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