Dalingheornis
dah-LING-hee-OR-nis /dɑˌlɪŋhiˈɔːrnɪs/
Accepted genus
Daling River bird
- Dalinghe · Chinese (place name) · Daling River
- ornis · Greek · bird
The name combines the Daling River (Dalinghe) in Liaoning Province, China, near where the fossil was found, with the Greek word for "bird". It refers to the river region that yielded the specimen of this small Early Cretaceous bird.
- Period
- Early Cretaceous
- Found in
- Jehol Biota, Liaoning Province, China
An enantiornithine bird (an early branch of avian dinosaurs). Birds are theropod dinosaurs, so it counts as a dinosaur in the modern sense. The type species is Dalingheornis liweii. I am not certain of the exact author, year, formation or stage, so those fields are left blank.