Pengornis
Name: Pengornis
(Peng bird).
Phonetic: Pen-gor-niss.
Named By: Z. Zhou, J. Clarke & F.
Zhang - 2008.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Enantiornithes, Euenantiornithes,
Pengornithidae.
Species: P. houi (type).
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: China, Liaoning Province -
Jiufotang Formation.
Time period: Aptian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Two individuals, one
adult, one juvenile.
Pengornis is a genus of enantiornithine bird that lived in China during the early Cretaceous.
Further reading
- Insight into diversity, body size and morphological evolution
from the largest Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird. - Journal
of Anatomy 212(5):565-577. - Z. Zhou, J. Clarke
&
F. Zhang - 2008.
- A subadult specimen of Pengornis and character evolution in
Enantiornithes. - Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 52: 77–97. - H. Hu, Zhou
Zhong-He & Jingmai O'Connor - 2014.
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