Shuilingornis angelai was named by Wang et al. (2025) [Small euornithine bird with the unique combination of characteristics that can be distinguished from other Mesozoic birds: acuminate edentulous premaxilla longer than preantorbital ramus of maxilla; nasal with large subnarial process; procumbent maxillary teeth restricted to rostral end of bone which are much larger than the underlying dentary teeth (autapomorphy); humerus with robust shaft and elongate and gently curved delto-pectoral crest; gracile alular digit less than half radius shaft width; large “U-shaped” furcula contacts the triangular apex of sternum; laterodistal end of coracoid does not define a distinct process, describing an acuminate 45 corner; manual phalangeal formula 2-3-2, with first phalanx of minor digit more than four times longer than the second phalanx.]. Its type specimen is LY2022JZ3002, 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 Shuilingornis.