New Eoenantiornithid Bird from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Western Liaoning, China
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Acknowledgements We thank President Zhao Dayu and Vice-president Zhang Hui of the Shenyang Normal University for their supporting the project. Mr. Chen Dayong produced photographs, Mr. Liu Tongshun drew text-figures, and Yang Shurui repaired the specimen. Thanks also go to western Liaoning field-work team of the Shenyang Normal University for collecting the specimen.


New Eoenantiornithid Bird from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Western Liaoning, China
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    1 Introduction Enantiornithes were the most blooming branch among the early birds and had distinct diversities. They flourished in the Early Cretaceous (Kurochkim, 1985; Chiappe, 1991; Sanz and Bonaparte, 1992; Boles, 1995; Elzanowski, 1995), and become extinct at the end of the Late Cretaceous. Lots of the birds have been reported in western Liaoning, China (Sereno and Rao, 1992; Zhou, 1995; Hou, 1996, 1997; Sanz and Chiappe, 1996; Sanz et al., 1997; Hou and Chen, 1999; Hou et al., 1…

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    Enantionithine birds are the most blooming branch of early birds and have distinct diversities. A large number of enantionithine birds have been reported from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation in western Liaoning, China. Recently, we discovered a new eoenantiornithid bird from the Jiufotang Formation in Dapingfang Town, western Liaoning. A new eoenantiornithid bird, Dapingfangornis sentisorhinus gen. et sp. nov., is erected based on this complete skeleton with a skull. The new bird is distinguished from other known Mesozoic birds in a medium to small size, a distinct thorn-like process on the nasals, a sternum with a long and a short lateral processes. The thorn-like process on the nasal has not been discovered among known fossil birds, thus the discovery also provides new materials on the diversities of early birds.

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LI Li DUAN Ye HU Dongyu WANG Li CHENG Shaoli HOU Lianhai.2006. New Eoenantiornithid Bird from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Western Liaoning, China[J]. ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA(English edition),80(1):38~41

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