Also known as Liaoningornis type
Where: Liaoning, China (41.8° N, 120.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 122.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Lujiatun Member (Yixian Formation), Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)
• "Bottom of Yixian Formation [i.e., Member]; Tithonian" based on author's views about the age of the Yixian Formation (unit is Barremian - Aptian according to later authors)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the IVPP
• collected after the publication of two papers on Confuciusornis in 1995
Primary reference: L. Hou. 1997. A carinate bird from the Upper Jurassic of western Liaoning, China. Chinese Science Bulletin 42(5):413-417 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85288: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 09.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Liaoningornis longidigitris n. gen. n. sp.
Liaoningornis longidigitris n. gen. n. sp. Hou 1997 bird |