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Huoshanornis huji
Taxonomy
Huoshanornis huji was named by Wang et al. (2010). Its type specimen is Dalian Natural Museum D2126, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Dapingfang, which is in an Aptian lacustrine mudstone in the Jiufotang Formation of China. It is the type species of Huoshanornis.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2010 | Huoshanornis huji Wang et al. pp. 432-433 figs. 1-2, 4 |
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†Huoshanornis huji Wang et al. 2010
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| X. Wang et al. 2010 | A bird of moderate size characterized by the following features: intermetacarpal space broad; first phalanx of alular digit greatly reduced, roughly one fourth the length of the carpometacarpus; the single (proximal) phalanx of the minor digit as long as and almost as wide as that of the major digit; lateral trabecula of the sternum slightly shorter than xiphoid process, with a remarkable triangular expansion at its distal end. |
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| References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983 | |||||