Horezmavis eocretacea Nessov and Borkin 1983 (bird)

Aves - Gruiformes

Full reference: L. A. Nessov and L. Y. Borkin. 1983. New findings of birds' bones from the Cretaceous of Mongolia and Middle Asia. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta 116:108-110

Belongs to Horezmavis according to E. N. Kurochkin 2000

See also Nessov and Borkin 1983

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PO 3390, a limb element (tarsometatarsus). Its type locality is SH-20, Khodzhakul, which is in a Cenomanian coastal sandstone/claystone in the Khodzhakul Formation of Uzbekistan.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at SH-20, Khodzhakul

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