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Otogornis genghisi

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Otogornis genghisi was named by Hou (1994). Its type specimen is IVPP V 9607, a partial skeleton (associated elements of the forelimb and shoulder girdle with some flight feathers), and it is a compression preserving soft parts. Its type locality is Otog Sumu (bed 5), which is in a Barremian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/mudstone in the Jingchuan Formation of China. It is the type species of Otogornis.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Otogornis genghisi Hou
1997Otogornis genghisi Hou p. 84
2000Otogornis genghisi Kurochkin p. 548
2002Otogornis genghisi Chiappe p. 457

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Avialae
—Ornithothoraces
subclassEnantiornithes
genusOtogornis
speciesgenghisi

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Otogornis genghisi Hou 1994
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
L. H. Hou 1997Moderate in size; walls of the long bones are thickened, and scapula is an elongated and thickened plate with an anteriorly projected acromion. The coracoid head is inflated, distal end is an expanded plate, and the shaft maintains a supracoracoidal foramen. Humerus is relatively robust, is shorter than the radius-ulna, proximal end lacks a pneumatocoel, a capital groove is well developed, deltoid process is small, the olecranon fossa is shallow, and the tricipital groove is a deep depression. Radius and ulna are elongated, ulna is laterally compressed, and lacks secondary feather papillae. Metacarpals are unfused and manus unguals are present. Feather barbules are not in compact alignment
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:39:15
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:39:15
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875, Benton 1983

Age range: Late/Upper Barremian or 125.77000 to 121.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Barremian125.77 - 121.4China (Nei Mongol) Enantiornithes indet. (type locality: 85296)