Sanshuiornis

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Sanshuiornis
Temporal range: Middle Eocene
Holotype
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Neognathae
Genus: †Sanshuiornis
Wang et al., 2011
Species
  • †S. zhangi Wang et al., 2011 (type)

Sanshuiornis (meaning "bird from Sanshui Basin") is an extinct genus of bird from Middle Eocene deposits of Guangdong Province, south China. It is known from the holotype IVPP V18116 an articulated complete right leg and foot. It was found from the black oil shales of the Huayong Formation of the Sanshui Basin, near Foshan. It was first named by Min Wang, Gerald Mayr, Jiangyong Zhang and Zhonghe Zhou in 2011 and the type species is Sanshuiornis zhangi. Sanshuiornis shows resemblances to some Ciconiiformes birds.[1]

References

  1. ^ "New bird remains from the Middle Eocene of Guangdong, China". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. in press (3): 519. 2011. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0061. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |authors= (help)
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