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Lenesornis

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Lenesornis
Temporal range: Turonian, 90 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Avialae
Clade: Enantiornithes
Genus: Lenesornis
Kurochkin, 1996
Species:
L. maltshevskyi
Binomial name
Lenesornis maltshevskyi
(Nesov, 1986 [originally Ichthyornis)
Synonyms

Lenesornis is a genus of enantiornithine birds which lived during the Late Cretaceous about 90 Ma and is known from fossils found in the Bissekty Formation in the Kyzyl Kum, Uzbekistan.[1]

References

  1. ^ Kurochkin, E. N. (1996) A new enantiornithid of the Mongolian Late Cretaceous, and a general appraisal of the infraclass Enantiornithes (Aves). Russian Academy of Sciences Palaeontological Institute Special Issue 1-60