Minggangia

Minggangia is an extinct genus of bird containing one species, Minggangia changgouensis. Fossils were discovered in the Lizhuang Formation of Henan Province, China. This formation was dated back at the late Eocene period.^[1]

Minggangia Temporal range: Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	incertae sedis
Genus:	†Minggangia Hou, 1982[1]
Species:	†M. changgouensis
Binomial name
†Minggangia changgouensis Hou, 1982[1]

Classification

The genus and species were first described in 1982. The original describer considered that Minggangia changgouensis was an ibis, comparing it to Ibidopsis hordwelliensis, and placing it in the family Threskiornithidae.^[1] Ibidopsis has also been placed in the rails (family Rallidae), a placement supported for Minggangia in 2005 based on bone anatomy.^[2]