Dingavis

Ding's bird (the "Ding" element is not confirmed here)

• Ding · Chinese (personal name) · honorific element; the exact person honoured is not confirmed here
• avis · Latin · bird

The name combines "Ding", an honorific element, with the Latin "avis", meaning "bird". I'm not certain who "Ding" honours, so I haven't named a person. The only species, Dingavis longimaxilla, has "longimaxilla" ("long jaw") as its species name. This refers to its elongated snout.

Named by

O'Connor, Wang and Hu

Year named

2016

Period

Early Cretaceous

Found in

Jehol Biota, northeastern China

Dingavis is an early ornithuromorph bird with an elongated rostrum. Birds are avian dinosaurs, so it counts as a dinosaur in the cladistic sense. It is not a non-avian dinosaur. The exact formation, the honoree of the "Ding" element and the precise stage are not stated here because I'm not sure of them.