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Avimaia schweitzerae
Taxonomy
Avimaia schweitzerae was named by Bailleul et al. (2019). Its type specimen is IVPP V25371, a partial skeleton, and it is a compression preserving soft parts. Its type locality is Changma, Yumen, which is in an Aptian lacustrine mudstone/shale in the Xiagou Formation of China. It is the type species of Avimaia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2019 | Avimaia schweitzerae Bailleul et al. p. 2 fig. 1 |
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†Avimaia schweitzerae Bailleul et al. 2019
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. M. Bailleul et al. 2019 | Small-bodied enantiornithine (robust, cranially forked pygostyle, distal condyles of tibiotarsus contacting medially, J-shaped metatarsal I, metatarsal IV mediolaterally reduced relative to metatarsals III and IV, metatarsal IV trochlea reduced to single condyle; Supplementary Note 1) with the following autapomorphies: pubis delicate and strongly curved so that the caudal margin is concave throughout; distal end of ischium dorsally curved. |
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| References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875 | |||||