Pengornithidae
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Pengornithidae is a group of early enantiornithines from the early Cretaceous Period of China, with the putative member Falcatakely possibly extending this clade's range into the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar,[2] and several putative pengornithids also hail from this formation.[3] Specimens of these animals have been found both in the Huajiying Formation and Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning and Hebei provinces, dating from the Hauterivian age (130.7 million years ago) to the Aptian age (120 million years ago).[4]
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Pengornithids | |
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Fossil specimen of Parapengornis eurycaudatus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Avialae |
Clade: | †Enantiornithes |
Family: | †Pengornithidae Wang et al., 2014 |
Type genus | |
†Pengornis Zhou, Clarke, & Zhang, 2008 | |
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