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Linyiornis amoena
Taxonomy
Linyiornis amoena was named by Wang et al. (2016). Its type specimen is STM11-80, a skeleton, and it is a compression preserving soft parts. Its type locality is Luzhougou, Yaolugou, which is in an Aptian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Jiufotang Formation of China. It is the type species of Linyiornis.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2016 | Linyiornis amoena Wang et al. p. 2 |
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†Linyiornis amoena Wang et al. 2016
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| Y. Wang et al. 2016 | A pigeon-sized enantiornithine bird with the unique combination of the following features: robust rostrum with dorsoventral height of premaxilla corpus equal to its rostrocaudal length; bicipital crest hypertrophied with strong cranial projection relative to humeral shaft; muscle attachment pit massive and craniodistally located on the bicipital crest; scapular shaft sagittally curved with blunt distal end; fossa for the capital ligament distinctly absent from the medial surface of femoral head. |
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| References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983 | |||||