Kunpengornis anhuimusei was named by Huang et al. (2026) [Longirostrine euornithine bird with reduced maxillary ramus of premaxilla shorter than half the buccal margin of premaxilla; premaxillary body shorter than the maxillary preantorbital ramus; premaxilla with five teeth restricted to the caudal half of the occlusal margin; nasal with acuminate frontal ramus and blunt rounded maxillary (subnarial) ramus; postorbital ramus of frontal rounded in dorsal view and abruptly projected from orbital margin of bone; coracoid having a trapezoidal procoracoid process not expanded craniocaudally at its medial margin; robust minor metacarpal with shaft broader than half of major metacarpal; sternum with blunt craniolateral process, drop-shaped distal end of lateral trabecula and reduced intermediate trabecula not enclosing a caudal fenestra; pubis lacking ossified distal symphysis and with gradually expanding distal end, resulting in a distal tip twice longer craniocaudally than at mid-shaft, but lacking an abrupt distinction between shaft and distal foot (autapomorphy); intermembranal index = 1.12. ]. Its type specimen is AGB15483, a skeleton (a nearly complete and articulated skeleton preserved in a single slab), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Lamadong, Jianchang, which is in an Aptian lacustrine sandstone/mudstone in the Jiufotang Formation of China. It is the type species of Kunpengornis.