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Enaliornis

Reptilia - Hesperornithiformes

Taxonomy
Enaliornis was named by Seeley (1876) [Sepkoski's age data: K Albi-u K Ceno Sepkoski's reference number: 1066 nomen nudum in 1869: see Elzanowski and Galton 1991]. Its type is Enaliornis barretti. It is the type genus of Enaliornithidae.

It was assigned to Odontotormae by Zittel (1890); to Enaliornithidae by Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1960), Brodkorb (1963), Brodkorb (1971), Martin and Tate (1976) and Carroll (1988); to Ornithuromorpha by O'Connor and Zelenkov (2013), Wang et al. (2014) and O'Connor et al. (2014); to Ornithurae by Wang and Liu (2015); and to Hesperornithiformes by Elzanowski and Galton (1991), Sepkoski (2002), Padian (2004) and Bell and Chiappe (2016).

Species
E. barretti (type species), E. sedgwicki, E. seeleyi, E. segdwicki

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Pelagornis Seeley
1876Enaliornis Seeley p. 497
1890Enaliornis Zittel p. 835
1933Enaliornis Lambrecht p. 255
1960Enaliornis Wetmore p. 23
1963Enaliornis Brodkorb p. 60
1971Enaliornis Brodkorb p. 37
1976Enaliornis Martin and Tate, Jr. p. 65
1988Enaliornis Carroll
1991Enaliornis Elzanowski and Galton p. 105
2002Enaliornis Sepkoski
2004Enaliornis Padian p. 213
2013Enaliornis O'Connor and Zelenkov
2014Enaliornis O'Connor et al.
2014Enaliornis Wang et al.
2015Enaliornis Wang and Liu
2016Enaliornis Bell and Chiappe

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
—PygostyliaChiappe 2002
—Ornithothoraces
—OrnithuromorphaChiappe et al. 1999
subclassOrnithurae
orderHesperornithiformesFürbringer 1888
genusEnaliornisSeeley 1876

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Enaliornis Seeley 1876
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†Enaliornis barretti Seeley 1876
†Enaliornis sedgwicki Seeley 1869
†Enaliornis seeleyi Galton and Martin 2002
†Enaliornis segdwicki Seeley 1869
Invalid names: Pelagornis Seeley 1866 [replaced]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available