Chromeornis funkyi was named by O’Connor et al. (2025) [A small (estimated 33.5 g) longipterygid (rostrum ~60% of the skull or greater, distally restricted dentition, premaxillary corpus with elongate imperforate rostral end with parallel dorsal and ventral margins, robust pygostyle longer than tarsometatarsus, coracoid with straight lateral margin, humerus with narrow deltopectoral crest) enantiornithine (cranially forked pygostyle with ventrolateral processes, Y-shaped furcula with dorsally excavated rami, proximal humerus with small convex humeral head separated from the dorsal and ventral tubercles by concavities, minor metacarpal projecting farther distally than the major metacarpal, metatarsal IV reduced) distinguishable by the unique combination of the following characters: dentary straight; sternum with slightly splayed lateral trabeculae with asymmetrical fan-shaped distal expansions and short, straight intermediate trabeculae; hand shorter than humerus; alular digit short with small claw; second phalanx of major digit half the length of first phalanx; femur straight.]. Its type specimen is STM7-156, a skeleton (a nearly complete and articulated mature individual preserved in a slab and counterslab missing most of the pelvis and left pedal digits, also preserving soft t), 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 Chromeornis.