Scandiavis mikkelseni was named by Bertelli et al. (2013) [Mediumsized bird, with (1) skull with long narial openings, (2) pars symphysialis of mandible with flat ventral surface, (3) presence of a dor sally recurved processus retroarticularis (mandible), (4) third cervical vertebra with distinct subovated pro cesses on dorsal surface of caudal margin, (5) ribs with unfused processus uncinati, pelvis with (6) ilia not fused to synsacrum and (7) deep pits at the base of the spina dorsolateralis ilii, (8) tibiotarsus with relatively long fibula (reaching threethirds the length of the tibiotar sus), (9) femur with prominent process next to condy lus lateralis, (10) tibiotarsus with distinctly notched distal rim of condylus medialis, (11) a rather short tar sometatarsus, not exceeding the femur in length, (12) trochlea metatarsi II plantarly deflected and reach ing much less far distally than trochlea metatarsi IV, (13) a wide os metatarsale I, and (14) a short hallux.]. Its type specimen is FU171x, a partial skeleton (incomplete skeleton preserving the skull and mandible, vertebral column, the pelvis and hindlimbs), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Around ash layer +15, Coast cliff at Ejerslev, Isle of Mors, which is in a Ypresian offshore ramp diatomite/volcaniclastic in the Fur Formation of Denmark.